- The Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) has been forced to close due to a shortage of funding, and other primary care groups warn they face similar pressures.
- Toolkits to help GPs diagnose and manage chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the community have been launched by NHS Kidney Care.
- Taking two medicines at the same time doubles working-age adults' risk of falling, New Zealand researchers have found.
- Nutritional therapists are giving dangerous advice that could seriously damage health and urging patients to keep their GPs in the dark about it, a consumer watchdog has found.
- A review of medical device regulation is to be launched in the wake of safety concerns around PiP breast implants, health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced.
- PCTs will be forced to make NICE-approved drugs available through the introduction of an 'effective compliance regime', according to health secretary Andrew Lansley.
- PiP breast implants do not need to be routinely removed and evidence suggests there is not a link with cancer, a DH expert review has concluded.
- GPs must play a central role in assessing requests from patients wanting to be assisted to die, a panel has concluded.
- Minimum alcohol pricing could be introduced on a regional basis in England using by-laws drawn up in response to the lack of national progress on the issue.
- Patients with psoriasis are more likely to have a wide range of other conditions for which they should be assessed and treated, a study has shown.
- RCGP members are being surveyed on whether the college should call for the Health and Social Care Bill to be withdrawn.
- Pregnant women should be given mild to moderate topical corticosteroids when such treatment is necessary, an international team of researchers has concluded.
- Skin conditions are the most frequent new reason for GP consultations in the UK, University of Nottingham researchers have found.
- Malignant melanoma may spread only in individuals with a particular gene, UK research suggests.
- Practice-level data on prescribing across all practices in England have been published online, a move the GPC fears could lead to the development of league tables.
- High obesity levels and alcohol consumption continue to fuel health inequalities in Scotland, the chief medical officer's (CMO) annual report has warned.
- Mortality, quality of life and patient experience data will be among the outcome measures used to hold the NHS Commissioning Board to account, health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced.
- Practice-level data on a huge range of outcomes has been published by the Information Centre.
- Practice-level prescribing data will be published online by September 2012, the government has announced.
- Patient representatives on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) should be paid for their time and offered training, the Patients Association believes.
