- Sheffield GPs are organising runs in their local park to help patients become more physically active.
- Minimum unit alcohol pricing will be introduced in Scotland after the Scottish Parliament voted to approve the measure.
- Details of the areas covered by all 212 proposed clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England, as well as their budgets and constituent practices, have been released.
- NHS patients will be able to choose when and where they receive common diagnostic and monitoring tests, including blood tests and heart scans, under DH plans.
- GPs should review the treatment of people who suffer from severe allergic reactions, the MHRA has said after the adrenaline injector Anapen was precautionary recalled.
- Unused drugs should be thrown away with normal waste to minimise harmful emissions, according to US researchers, but UK experts say they should be returned to pharmacies.
- The NHS Commissioning Board's chairman has been rebuked for suggesting that GPs 'playing golf' was leading to patients being unnecessarily admitted to hospital.
- GPs will have patient-specific decision-support tools which incorporate NICE guidance in their consulting rooms in the near future, NICE chairman Sir Michael Rawlins believes.
- NICE will for the first time develop guidelines to help GPs manage patients with multiple conditions, the institute's chairman has said.
- Health ministers should consider a ban on exports of prescription medicines to ensure NHS patients can access the drugs they need, a group of MPs has warned.
- Medical device regulators must start to use safety data from a wider set of sources, a government review of PiP breast implants has concluded.
- GPs should carry out audits of patient records to help identify two million people with undiagnosed COPD, the DH has said.
- GP see controlling weight as the most challenging aspects of type 2 diabetes treatment, a survey suggests.
- Around 90% of meningitis cases could be prevented by a vaccine shown to be safe and effective at producing immune responses in an international study.
- Poor uptake of MMR jabs on Merseyside is leaving babies and toddlers at risk as the region faces its largest measles outbreak in decades, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has warned.
- NHS underspending in 2011/12 could mean the health service loses its protected status in governmental budgets, an SHA chief executive has said.
- GP prescribing should be subject to regular reviews by pharmacists to help minimise errors and protect patients, a GMC report has recommended.
- Out-of-hours GP data is now being monitored to provide real-time disease outbreak information ahead of and during the Olympics, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has revealed.
- Poor NHS provision of genetic testing is leading to cancer patients receiving sub-optimal care, oncologists have warned.
- Patients are being put at risk by excessive red tape blocking access to affordable, licensed drugs, experts have warned as rules on unlicensed medicines come under fresh scrutiny.
