Primary Medical Contracts - who can hold what?

A very good paper from the GPC committee of the BMA that explains the differences between GMS/APMS and SPMS. It also gives an introduction to NHS pension eligability.

Essential for the business plan

We have recently come across groups who know that there are things they want to improve, but cannot free up the cash to do it. This paper from the NHS institute of Innovation and improvement shows how the reduction of acute admissions can acheive this.

Centre for Public Scrutiny

Have writen a paper that I have only just found despite it being May 2006. I put it up because I think it has a very good section on the differing roles of the SHA, the PCT and in particular the OSC (Oversight and Scrutiny Committee). These are areas to which the practices can be blind.

Interesting things uyou didnt know

This link is to the answers posed to the DH by a reporter about such things as "How much does the NHS cost", "How many prescriptions were cashed in per year" and is a really useful source of a sense of scale of the NHS. Have a quick look at it.

Where did all the money go?

Excellent radio 4 article on headline fate of all the money that was thrown at the health service. About half on pay (including a rise of numbers of managers by a third)

Clinical Engagement 2008 onwards

A report from a Kings fund summit:

"In a labour intensive industry, doctors, nurses and other health care professionals are the key resource - not just clinically, but managerially too."

PBC is one technique for making sure that the knowledge that clinicians have about what is good health care and what is not is used for the benefit of our patients.