GP Federations: win-win for patients, public and frogs

The healthcare trade papers report that the RCGP and BMA (GPC) are pushing the GP Federation idea again, this time as a way to escape what they see as the problems with the commissioning reforms and the vulnerability of Clinical Commissioning Groups.  We welcome that as something that GPs can unite... 
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Hands off our Ombudsman and other Big Soc Stuff

Hands off our Ombudsman we say. The Public Administration Select Committee has taken a look at the Big Society and is not sure what it sees. The Big Society seems to have become a curiously insubstantial reincarnation of the wooly mammoth – is it real or just a ghost that haunts the cracks and... 
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Consumer Policy on Trial

I am watching Richard Thomas being put through the wringer of the Leveson enquiry via the live feed. The counsel was giving him a hard time about not going for the journalists either at all or only indirectly via approaches to the Press Complaints Commission. But it was not just Richard that was in the... 
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Complainants Anonymous – the curse of the internet?

Are you amongst my 35 loyal readers who have found my TripAdvisor reviews helpful? Have you armed yourself with my latest incisive review of the Red Mullions guest house in Oxford – Baby for Breakfast? In my 15 reviews in 4 years, I lurk behind my mask as ‘themacrae’ so I am that dread... 
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