GP federations 'starting to snowball'
Exclusive: Hundreds of GP practices across the UK are already working in federation-like groupings, just two years after the RCGP’s plans were first mooted, a Pulse investigation reve...
Has practice-based commissioning been turned against GPs?
It is five years since the Government launched practice-based commissioning with the grand ideal of allowing GPs to use their expert knowledge to reshape services and save money for their practi...
PBC is alive and real budgets a 'maybe', says tsar
Primary Care Tsar, Dr David Colin-Thome has set the record straight about reports he called PBC a ‘corpse’. He told Practical Commissioni...
Results of PBC Connection Poll: What will happen to PBC when we have a change of government?
Here are the results of the poll we held in October and your response shows that radical policy change is predominantly expected. Radical policy change 48% Cosmetic change...
NHS needs to save £15 million a day
The NHS needs to save £15 million a day – from yesterday – to grapple with the scale of the financial challenge that lies ahead, Practical Commissioning has been t...
GP commissioning shows little sign of life - David Colin-Thomé
The government’s primary care tsar has admitted that efforts to “resuscitate” the “corpse” of practice based commissioning have had little eff...
Andrew Lansley vows to save £1.5 billion by cutting NHS red tape and targets
The Conservatives would save £1.5 billion over four years by cutting back NHS bureaucracy, Andrew Lansley claimed today. The saving — ...
Nurse-led COPD project is cost-effective
A nurse-led programme of exercise and education has helped to improve walking distances and quality of life for COPD patients on the Isle of Wight. ...
Practice Based Commissioning (PBC) GP Practice Survey Wave 8
Eight quarterly practice survey for 2009
The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has launched an 'emergency summit' to investigate reports of PCTs withdrawing support for practice-based commissioning (P...