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23 May 2012

LMCs renew attack on NHS 111

GP representatives have expressed “serious concerns” about the roll-out of NHS 111 and claimed the government is ignoring lessons from
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23 May 2012

GPs fear ‘outsourcing’ of commissioning

Commissioning support will be a defacto outsourced service by 2016, one of the leaders of the BMA’s GP committee has
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23 May 2012

LMCs worry about “imminent” end of GPSoC

Many practices will be left without an adequate IT system if a credible replacement for GPSoC is not agreed soon,
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22 May 2012

Buckman attacks reforms and email plans

The British Medical Association’s GP leader has launched a blistering attack on the new Health and Social Care Act, saying
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22 May 2012

Power plays

GPs and GP system suppliers have given a luke-warm reaction to the NHS information strategy. Rebecca Todd reports.
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2 April 2012

Unions join BMA in call for pause on 111

The Royal College of Nursing and Unison have added their voices to calls for a pause in the roll-out of
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23 March 2012

Docs rapped for social media abuse

A US study suggests that medical boards are starting to get tough on doctors who act unprofessionally on social networking
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1 March 2012

GPC warns on ‘privatised’ commissioning

The BMA GPC has become the latest body to come out against the Health and Social Care Bill, and voiced
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20 February 2012

More doubts about NHS 111 deadline

Lessons learned from the NHS 111 pilots may be lost because of unrealistic deadlines for the roll-out of the urgent
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17 February 2012

BMA calls for NHS 111 slow-down

The British Medical Association has written to health secretary Andrew Lansley urging him to adopt a “flexible deadline” for the
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