- LMCs have called on the GMC to work with the BMA to develop a standard appraisal system which will be accepted for revalidation.
- GPs have unanimously said CQC registration 'is a bridge too far' and have called for practices not to foot the bill if it comes into force.
- Revalidation may never happen if problems with enhanced appraisal and remediation have to be sorted out before it goes ahead, a GMC representative has told the LMCs conference.
- The NHS will 'run out of GPs' unless the government listens to the profession's concerns about rising workload and puts a stop to reforms and funding cuts, the GPC chairman has warned.
- Practices must provide online booking for appointments by 2015 in a bid to end the '8am rush', the DH has said.
- An extra £35m has been added to the NHS Commissioning Board's running costs after it said it needed extra staff, a report shows.
- Data showing individual GPs' impact on patient outcomes should be published and could feed into revalidation, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has said.
- A judicial review could be launched in a bid to get the government to publish the transitional risk register into the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act.
- Ballot papers will be sent out this week in elections for six RCGP council posts, after a list of candidates was announced.
- Four regional directors appointed by the NHS Commissioning Board (NCB) this week will work with PCT clusters to finalise plans for its local area offices.
- The current model of general practice is 'unsustainable' because the annual number of GP consultations will double by 2035 as people live longer, consultants have warned.
- Health secretary Andrew Lansley has used a veto to prevent publication of the risk register into the implementation of the government's health reforms.
- The six candidates for the next president of the RCGP have been confirmed.
- The first wave of 35 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) due to be authorised by the NHS Commissioning Board has been announced.
- PCTs could seek to overhaul practices' existing catchment areas as part of negotiations to agree an 'outer boundary' by 1 July, according to DH guidance.
- Anti-Health Act campaigners are among seven GPs elected to the BMA council in a 'ferociously fought' campaign.
- Draft guidance on how doctors should be using social media has been launched by the GMC.
- GMC revalidation questionnaires will leave GPs inundated with paperwork, GPC leaders warned, as they set out a series of unresolved concerns about revalidation.
- Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are excluding LMCs from the development of their constitutions and risk morphing into 'the worst of PCTs', GP leaders have warned.
- The GMC has launched a revalidation campaign to contact the remaining 54,000 doctors who have still not confirmed their designated bodies.
