Health secretary Alan Johnson has hit out at NHS organisations that fail to offer nurses access to continuing professional development and training.

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The NHS will not be able to cope with future demand unless it focuses relentlessly on value for money, says think tank Reform.

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A patient who repeatedly stabbed a Glasgow GP has been acquitted on the grounds of insanity.

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Drug appraisals could take longer, claims NICE after the Court of Appeal ruled that it must make the way it calculates cost-effectiveness more open.

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Dispensing practices around the country could lose half their income because a company has made a string of speculative applications to set up new pharmacies.

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Just £25 million may be available for the workforce expected to carry out the cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening programme in England.

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Monitoring GP practices' mortality data is unlikely to detect another serial killer like Shipman, claim UK researchers.

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The GPC has dismissed rumours that its legal challenge to the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body (DDRB) report has no chance of success.

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The bowel cancer screening programme in England could cost over £40 million.

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A Bradford GP is being treated for shock after her husband died in a jet skiing accident in Australia.

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Calls to NHS Direct and GP out-of-hours services could soon be combined into single three-digit number for urgent care calls.

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The Scottish government has failed to give consideration to the security and safety of GPs in implementing the extended access directed enhanced service (DES), according to LMCs.

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PCTs do not have the tools they need to commission new polyclinics, because the DoH has refused to release key tender documents.

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Scottish LMCs said that NHS 24 is a 'huge waste of resources' but stopped short of calling for a return to a GP-managed delivery of out-of-hours care.

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Patients worried about their risk of hereditary cancer can now get a personal assessment through an online tool by Macmillan Cancer Support.

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Scottish LMCs quizzed GPC negotiators following a claim by medical accountants that the correction factor cuts in this year’s pay award were due to the wording of a paragraph in the new GMS contract.

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Palliative care for non-malignant disease makes the biggest difference to patients, according to an international poll by the BMJ.

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A vote to consider a purely Scottish GP contract was passed as a reference by LMC representatives in defiance of the GPC.

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Women GPs are holding on to their comfortable lead as the safest group in the profession.

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