#News
Your next issue of your all-new, fortnightly GP is going to press now and will be with you first via iPad tomorrow afternoon and in print on Monday. In a week when it was shirt-on not shirt-off for health minister Dr Dan Poulter's annual flu jab, we splash on what the new 2014/15 GMS contract will look like.
The successor to NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson was unveiled on Wednesday. It was goodbye NHS Direct on Thursday.
In other Somerset-based, 'scrumpy and western' GP fundraiser news:
@Neil_GPmag @GPonlinenews Ooh, got a link mbabber? Not sure how many of our Followers keep up with GP News!
— The Wurzels (@TheWurzels) October 23, 2013
#OurBestReadStories
1. GMC to face High Court challenge over fairness of CSA test
2. GP complaints force NHS 111 action
3. NICE sets out bid to slash QOF workload
4. GPs could oversee out-of-hours care from 2014, GPC says
5. GPs refuse to police NHS access in £500m migrant fees plan
#OurBestReadBlog
Our best read blog was Dr Chris Lancelot's (@DrChrisLancelot) NHS England (@NHSEngland) is behaving like a person with no sensory system.
Do young doctors enjoy banter - political or otherwise?
@Godavarian193 @rcgp @pulsetoday Please provide evidence for comment. IMO younger doctors enjoy bantering - political or otherwise
— Clare Gerada (@clarercgp) October 23, 2013
@Godavarian193 @clarercgp Its important for the young to join in political bantering. It helps form future leaders & shape the system.
— Dr Lindsay Moran (@lindsmoran) October 23, 2013
Is the government's energy policy indicative of the NHS's future?
@clarercgp It'll be fine, all you'll have to do is switch supplier. Shop around for your chemo. Compare the dialysis market, dot com. Easy.
— Pete Deveson (@PeteDeveson) October 22, 2013
@jreedmp maybe you should all have been wearing one of these in PMQ's today? pic.twitter.com/jRzZWA7lUs
— Jo (@jolajo40) October 23, 2013
And, finally, our Everton-supporting shadow health secretary cracks a footy-related funny:
Memo to Agent Moyes: mission on course. Continue as you are.
— Andy Burnham (@andyburnhammp) October 19, 2013
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