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Government is forcing GP surgery closures, BMA campaign warns

16 May 08

The BMA today launched a hard-hitting public campaign defending traditional general practice, warning patients their local surgery could be forced out of business as a result of the Government’s polyclinics and privatisation agenda.

Summary Care Record 'will be delayed until 2015'

16 May 08
GP-led centres to take on 50% of A&E work under Darzi plan

13 May 08
SSRIs ease severe PMS symptoms

16 May 08

Competition for patients begins as GPs take up extended hours

14 May 08
GPs filling the gaps in NHS dentistry

16 May 08
BMA bracing itself for strike

15 May 08

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Save our Surgeries campaign

Polyclinic week of protest: sign up here for your protest pack

14 May 08

Pulse is running a week of protest next month in which GPs can join our fight against the Government’s plans for primary care.

Sign our petition to help stop polyclinic expansion in its tracks

26 Mar 08

Add your name to our Save Our Surgeries petition calling for GPs and patients to be properly consulted before polyclinics or privately run health centres are introduced.

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Copperfield

Copperfield blog: Getting pharmacists to help with CVD screening will end in tears

16 May 08

Some words of wisdom from the Government Heart Tsar Professor Roger Boyle, who describes the plans for cardiovascular screening for 40-74 year olds as a ‘big job’. By which I assume he means the proposals are a pile of crap.

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Clinical

Ten tips on treating infantile eczema

16 May 08

Allergy GPSI Dr Adrian Morris gives advice on managing eczema in children

Snapshot diagnosis - what's causing this man's swollen genitals?

14 May 08

Dr Mike Wyndham describes how a swollen penis and hardened scrotum led to a diagnosis usually made on GI symptoms

Leg ulcers - sorting out the symptoms

14 May 08

GPs Dr Keith Hopcroft and Dr Vincent Forte continue their series on how to make sense of common presentations

Complementary medicines and irritable bowel syndrome - what works and what doesn't

13 May 08

In the first of a new 10-part series, professor of complementary medicine Edzard Ernst and colleagues sift through the evidence to find out what works and what doesn’t. This week, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

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Holiday prize and offers

WIN £500 TOWARDS THE CLASSIC COLLECTION HOLIDAY OF YOUR CHOICE

07 May 08

The winner of this excellent Pulse Travel prize can select a holiday at any of Classic Collection’s impressive locations and receive £500 towards the cost.

Business, Legal & IT

How to maximise your profit from GMS and PMS

15 May 08

In the first of a new series on boosting practice profit at a time of rising costs and pay freezes, Dr Stan Shepherd looks at GMS and PMS income, the solid base on which profit is built

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Focus on...

What does the future hold for PMS GPs?

14 May 08

PMS GPs have gone from flavour of the month to the target of PCT clawbacks - so what might future hold?

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Debate

Should the MPIG be scrapped?

14 May 08

The MPIG is disadvantaging most GPs as well as their most vulnerable patients, and action must be taken to phase it out, argues leading NHS manager Alastair Henderson. But the GPC's Dr Kailash Chand disagrees, arguing that getting rid of...

Blogs

Don't mondo, do something

16 May 08

Spleen has invented a new word to describe what he sees as the apathetic response of too many GPs to the current crisis in the profession.

Little argument against registrar pay cuts

13 May 08

The GP Apprentice is annoyed at the cuts to registrar pay and tired of his tutorials and TATTs. Only some coffee - and good news about its health benfits - has perked him up.