The coalition government's Health and Social Care Bill for England plans to give GPs responsibility for the NHS’s £80bn commissioning budget, will sweep away strategic health authorities and primary care trusts, and grant all hospitals foundation trust status.

This page links to all BMJ Group content on NHS reform since the white paper proposals were first announced by health secretary Andrew Lansley last year.

BMJ articles

• Why shouldn’t private companies run failing hospitals?
• Public health experts predict NHS reforms could lead to “chaos”
• How attractive is the NHS to private providers?
• Hinchingbrooke: the shape of things to come?
• Review: How Labour changed the NHS
• Health bill will do little to meet challenges facing NHS, three Labour, Tory, and Lib Dem politicians agree
• Don’t strike and keep negotiating, urges NHS Employers
• Future Forum tries to influence two key government documents
• Trusts need to highlight non-salary benefits of NHS employment, conference hears
• A pair of ragged clauses: the health bill in the House of Lords
• Don’t strike and keep negotiating, urges NHS Employers
• Achieving integrated care is a slow and difficult process
• Care in the community is an “unfinished revolution,” says think tank
• House of Lords’ vote on health secretary’s responsibility for NHS services is delayed
• Lack of clarity and high expectations could lead England’s new health regulator to fail
• Successful delivery of information technology in the NHS
• Trusts are wasting millions by failing to bulk buy equipment, warn MPs
• NHS should develop bioinformatics to make best use of whole genome sequencing, expert group says
• NHS has no way of knowing if it is on track to meet financial targets, expert says
• GP consultations have become more intense and complex, shows survey
• NHS chief is confident that only 20 trusts will not achieve foundation status by 2014
• Ministers’ failure to explain the case for “reforms” has left NHS staff without sense of purpose
• Running of the organ donor register could be privatised, says the Department of Health
• GPs, rather than the government, should be blamed for failures in new NHS, MPs are told
• Too few complaints about hospitals and GPs are being dealt with locally, says ombudsman
• Strong leadership is needed to steer NHS through planned changes, conference hears
• Primary care: an investment opportunity you can’t refuse?
• Letter: PFI causing financial problems: NHS cuts and PFI
• NHS ahead of schedule on efficiency savings, says health secretary
• More than three quarters of doctors think health bill should be withdrawn
• Plans for information collection from NHS put doctors in “impossible position”
• Patient Led Care: Do personal health budgets lead to better care choices?
• Medicine and the Media: The government’s criticisms of PFI don’t add up
• In defence of the NHS: why writing to the House of Lords was necessary
• Keep Our NHS Public
• Does competition between hospitals improve clinical quality? A review of evidence from two eras of competition in the English NHS
• Review: Memoirs of New Labour’s NHS chief
• Shirley Williams: still a rebel
• Public health doctors call for House of Lords to reject health bill
• Doctors are key to welfare reform
• Letter: Closing hospitals with warm sympathy
• Doctors will have a duty to report lapses in patients' basic care
• Health experts give qualified approval to previous government’s health reforms
• Trusts deny health secretary's claims that private finance initiatives have caused major financial problems
• Government announces end of NHS IT programme—for second time
• Better commissioning is needed to deal with combined effects of physical and mental illnesses
• NHS Reforms: The Health and Social Care Bill: 10 things for the Lords to consider
• Increasing competition in NHS is hampering commissioning
• Commissioners struggle to cut back on services, survey finds
• GPs enthusiasm for commissioning is "evaporating", claim peers
• Dorries's abortion amendment and the health bill
• Campaigning group accuses health department of "obfuscating" over health bill
• Health bill changes may restrict public access to information, campaign group warns
• Health bill passes to the Lords with majority of 65 votes
• The politics of NHS reconfiguration
• Politicians roles in reconfiguring hospitals should be reviewed, says King's Fund
• Feature NHS Reform : The politics of NHS reconfiguration
• Overseas companies could run NHS hospitals, emails reveal
• Politicians' role in reconfiguring hospitals should be reviewed, says King's Fund
• Labour government's increased NHS spend produced better health outcomes, study finds
• Health secretary will no longer be obliged to provide health service under new bill, says legal opinion
• Two thirds of trusts in England fail to meet new accident and emergency target
• Government is still "listening" as NHS Future Forum continues work
• Private finance initiatives to build hospitals do not provide value for money, English MPs warn
• The future of the primary medical workforce
• Letter: Reorganisation of public health: Government seems to have listened but not heard in reorganising public health
• Registration of general practitioners with regulator is pushed back to 2013
• NHS absenteeism is a “festering sore,” study says
• NHS shows £1.5bn surplus but quarter of trusts have weak financial arrangements
• UK healthcare system is one of most efficient in rich countries
• Don’t risk patient care to cut costs, regulator warns foundation trusts
• NHS competition puts survival of social enterprises at risk, says think tank
• MPs call on government to scrap £7bn NHS care records system
• Competition in healthcare can help to save lives, study concludes
• Two thirds of primary care trusts are cutting referrals, shows survey
• The future of public health in England
• Shared decision making must move from rhetoric to reality, says King’s Fund
• Letter: Bury the bill: BMA has made a poor health bill worse
• Letter: Competition in healthcare: Two issues with competition in healthcare
• Extension of patient choice is an invitation for private providers, warn critics
• BMA calls for amended health bill to be withdrawn
• Minister denies councils will use public health money for filling potholes in roads
• Book Review: How for-profit organisations got their hands on the NHS
• Market Reforms : Is competition law bad for patients?
• Patients are waiting longer for tests and treatment as pressure on NHS grows
• Key players express doubt over whether health bill amendments will restrict competition in NHS
• NICE confirms its role in new NHS after government U turn
• Future Forum is to examine integrated care and other issues in its next phase of work
• Role of health secretary in future NHS is still unclear, says Liberal Democrat peer
• Lansley denies plan to create "super quango" to control the NHS
• Data briefing: Can we afford the NHS in future?
• The prime minister's commitments on the NHS
• A full blooded market system: at what cost to the NHS?
• Commercial sector has much to offer in improving health, says England's chief medical officer
• Changes to NHS reforms will increase bureaucracy and treble the number of statutory organisations
• Health department won't be able to show preference between NHS and private providers of health services
• Editor's choice: Fighting for the NHS, and research integrity
• Editorial: Bury the bill
• Government cuts are jeopardising move to personal health budgets
• NHS reforms: NHS rethink: charade or cause for new hope?
• Trust in doctors is key to meeting the challenges facing the NHS, says BMA chairman
• Future Forum was truly independent and not influenced by government, claims chairman
• NICE will retain drug approval role in government U turn
• GP consortiums must learn from US experience, says expert
• Department of Health is not interested in improving quality, inquiry is told
• UK government spells out new plan for NHS in England
• The Future Forum proposes major changes to the government's plans for NHS reform
• Personal View: For-profit companies will strip NHS assets under proposed reforms
• More than half of GPs say NHS reforms are a factor for them retiring, shows BMA survey
• Cameron proposes radical changes to England's NHS reforms
• Involve specialists in commissioning, urges Royal College of Physicians
• Personal View: We need cooperation rather than competition
• Poor accountability under reforms could damage NHS, warns King's Fund
• Involve specialists in commissioning, urges Royal College of Physicians
• GPs are "raring to go" with commissioning of health care, alliance claims
• Leadership in the NHS
• A chance to optimise "value" in the NHS
• Keep GPs in the driving seat
• PCTs should live beyond 2013 to help GP consortiums bed in, says Nuffield trust
• Changes required to health bill will lead to delays, says Clegg
• Comment: Flawed ideology drives the NHS reforms
• Comment: Further privatisation is inevitable under the proposed NHS reforms
• Comment: Challenges of EU competition law for general practice commissioning
• Health reforms won't work without major changes, say King's Fund and BMA
• NHS managers add voice to calls for changes to health bill
• Health bill should include commitment to promote medical research, say research leaders
• Who will carry torch for patient safety after the reforms, conference is asked
• NHS paid private sector £217m for operations that never took place
• Lansley says he "can entertain any amount of change in the bill"
• Issues MPs and the media have missed in Lansley's bill
• King's Fund urges politicians to review plan to cut NHS managerial posts
• Cameron pushes ahead with reforms but promises "substantive changes"
• Criticisms of health reform are "noticeably misinformed," say supporters
• How to lose friends and alienate people
• Further privatisation is inevitable under the proposed NHS reforms
• Flawed ideology drives the NHS reforms
• Improving child health services: Future rests with GPs
• England's health secretary faces increasing isolation
• Competition can bring benefits for the NHS - provided it's the right kind, meeting hears
• General practitioner commissioning groups
• MPs raise fears over lack of plans for failures in NHS reforms
• GP incentive scheme has had little effect on health inequalities in England
• The horse has already bolted
• Bill is not fit to be amended
• What about the politics of the reform?
• Study proposal
• The stakes for Andrew Lansley could not be higher
• The stakes for Andrew Lansley could not be higher
• Who's complacent now? The King's Fund on general practice
• Half of 10,000 NHS jobs that may be cut are clinical, survey shows
• Former chair of RCGP will head government's listening panel on NHS reforms
• Government drops initial pledge to boost physical exercise
• GP commissioners must help improve care of surgery patients, say surgeons
• More people are waiting longer in A&E since targets were dropped
• Hospital doctors and nurses should sit with GPs on commissioning boards, say MPs
• Health secretary will "pause" and listen to staff over reform bill
• Fixing the policy may not sort out the politics
• Can the government's proposals for NHS reform be made to work?
• A glimpse of the future of healthcare at the seaside
• A 10th of GPs on consortium boards are also on boards of private firms
• Health inequalities may widen under new plans for public health, warn experts
• Government plans to let GPs buy from "any willing provider" are not sophisticated enough, report says
• Report warns social care in England faces £1bn funding gap by 2015
• How the secretary of state for health proposes to abolish the NHS in England
• NHS reforms could "sabotage" the UK’s trend of improved health outcomes, MPs hear
• Lansley promises to review health bill after Liberal Democrats oppose reforms
• Doctors vote for English health bill to be withdrawn
• MPs propose toning down aspects of health bill that increase competition in NHS
• Round Table: "We need to ‘shake’ the bill to make sure it works for patients"
• Prisoners' mental health could suffer if GPs fail to commission services, warn psychiatrists
• NHS reforms could destroy partnerships between primary and secondary care
• Lansley writes price competition out of the health bill
• NHS managers are more worried about financial squeeze than reform
• GPs could share profits from savings made through consortiums
• GPs are accused of using profits from commissioning to meet practice expenses
• Improving child health services in the UK: insights from Europe and their implications for NHS reforms
• Is it unethical for GPs to be commissioners?
• A new mental health strategy for England
• Report calls for National Commissioning Board to have stragtegic commissioning role
• Few doctors believe NHS reforms will improve quality of patient care shows BMA survey
• RCGP chair says it will cost £300m for GP time on consortiums
• Experts warn rationing by GP consortiums could damage doctor-patient relationship
• BMA warns government control over GP consortiums will be too powerful
• Poor health and NHS reform:diagnosing cancer still needs more resources
• Disinformation and distraction
• BMA calls on government to abandon price based competition in the NHS
• Government plans on public health are too vague, experts say
• Government looks at ways to reduce the cost of NHS negligence claims
• Pressure mounts for BMA to oppose health bill
• Competition in the NHS in England
• Where is the evidence Mr Lansley?
• Is the NHS only a means of delivering healthcare?
• Wants and needs
• Private health sector could face reduced business as NHS tightens its belt
• "Practices being railroaded" into consortiums, GP leader claims
• Consortium looks to NHS direct to handle all GP calls
• All healthcare staff - not just GPs should have a role in commissioning consortiums, MPs hear
• Scrutiny phase brings chance of change to NHS reform bill
• NHS reforms do little to empower patients, charities say
• Private finance initiatives during NHS austerity
• Health bill will destroy NHS says union
• NHS reform is unnecessary reinvention
• MPs support NHS reform as health bill passes first parliament debate
• Hospital closures are inevitable under health reforms, conference hears
• NHS reforms may mean a drop in quality of GP services, warns watchdog
• Experts warn public health reforms will lead to job losses and service fragmentation
• Shadow health secretary defends Labour's record on health
• Commissioning will cost £1.3bn less every year under GP consortiums, says Lansley
• Reaction: what they say about the health bill
• NHS reforms: latest information & comment about changes to the Nation Health Service in England
• Government has "systematically underestimated" cultural shift needed to implement reforms
• MPs criticise UK government over poor transition planning
• GP consortiums will need first class management support, says Nuffield Trust
• Open letter to BMA - BMA's reply
• Open letter to BMA about health white paper
• Cutting number of quangos will not save money, say MPs
• BMA chairman urges doctors to monitor "unnecessarily ambitious" reforms
• Accountability remains "grey area" that could lead to failure of NHS reforms, warns NHS confederation
• NICE is told to halt work on 19 public health topics
• Health secretary publishes outcome that will make NHS care "at least as good as any in the world"
• Lansley denies that restructuring the NHS will cost £2-3bn
• Doctors suggest ways to save the NHS £20bn
• Government axes a further 11 health quangos
• Judge dismisses union's bid to challenge legality of health reforms
• An open letter to the health secretary: how to really save money on the NHS
• Public health will suffer if GP commissioning groups are too small or the specialty is consigned to junior posts in local councils
• Surgeons' advice will be essential for GP consortiums to succeed, warns royal college
• More than 30 health quangos may be axed by UK coalition government
• Giant unions unite to stop government white paper's NHS reforms
• NHS White Paper: Why the plans to reform the NHS may never be implemented
• New GP consortiums should cover 500,000 patients, says RCGP
• Health White Paper: Commissioners doing it for themselves
• Public service union mounts legal challenge to government's health white paper
• GPs should not profit personally from NHS reforms, say doctors' leaders
• New kids on the block
• What does the white paper mean for hospital consultants?
• BMJ Careers: Do GPs want to commission?
• Public health directors will have big role to play in future NHS, says minister
• Do GPs have the stomach for the battle ahead?
• More brickbats than bouquets?
• GPs are handed sweeping powers in major shake up of NHS
• The coalition government’s plans for the NHS in England
• What will the white paper mean for GPs?
• Corporate responsibility in public health
• GPs have reasons not to be so cheerful over commissioning plans
• Reorganisation of the NHS in England
• NHS staff numbers begin to fall as fears rise over effect of efficiency savings
• GPs will have to perform well to earn a "quality premium" in shake up of commissioning
• Government confirms that food policy agency is moving to Whitehall
• GPs will see little disruption in forthcoming NHS reforms, health secretary says
• Improved frontline clinician performance is the secret to NHS efficiency

doc2doc discussions and blogs

BMJ blogs

• Edward Davies: Cuts, pensions, and perspective
• Martin McShane: Integrated reflections concluded
• Kailash Chand: An e-petition for the NHS
• Martin McShane: Integrated reflections continued
• Nigel Hawkes: Andrew Lansley on your bedside TV
• Martin McShane: Integrated reflections
• Edward Davies: The health service that cried wolf
• Martin McShane: A day at the Mid Staffordshire foundation trust enquiry
• Anna Dixon: Innovations in the healthcare workforce needed to deliver productivity improvements
• Richard Vize on local government taking over responsibility for public health
• Martin McShane: Care and cure
• Alison Spurrier: Caring for older people
• Vidhya Alakeson and David Coyle: Personal health budgets
• Vidhya Alakeson and David Coyle: Personal health budgets
• Martin McShane: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Martin McShane: Why?
• Martin McShane: Integration
• Marge Berer: Independent abortion counselling? Whose problem?
• Martin McShane: Stock take
• Martin McShane: Mirror on the wall
• Martin McShane: One small step
• Martin McShane: Nietzsche and commissioning
• Sarah Walpole, Jerome Baddley, and Rachel Stancliffe: Lost in transition
• Martin McShane: Thought for the day
• Martin McShane: A tale of two citizens?
• Kailash Chand: The Health and Social Care Bill remains flawed and unpopular
• Douglas Noble on reforming the reforms
• Richard Smith: The NHS debate - missing most of what matters
• Martin McShane: Appeasement
• Martin McShane: Director's cut
• Edward Davies: NHS Reforms – be careful what you wish for
• Peter Davies: Is it time to scrap the primary-seondary care divide?
• Martin McShane: No rules
• Martin McShane: Multilayered commissioning
• Martin McShane: Substantially amend
• Martin McShane: The calm
• Martin McShane: Evolution or Revolution?
• Kailash Chand: No confidence in Andrew Lansley
• Martin McShane: Consciously unconscious
• Domhnall MacAuley: The day the brakes went on
• Chris Ham: A chance to go back to basics on health and social care reform in England
• Martin McShane: Patients as customers
• Martin McShane: A confusion of choice
• Kailash Chand on the BMA's opposition to NHS reforms
• Martin McShane: Development through delivery and delivery through development
• Richard Smith: The Great War and NHS reform
• Martin McShane: Pheonix - myth or reality?
• Martin McShane: One organisation?
• Martin McShane: Where to start?
• Tomasz Pierscionek on student protests against NHS reforms
• Martin McShane: The dog that hasn't barked
• Martin McShane: Where has all the money gone?
• Martin McShane: Enthusiasm, cynicism, pragmatism and Pathfinders
• Douglas Noble on the public health white paper
• Paul Hobday on another NHS reorganisation
• Martin McShane: Transition and the operating framework
• Richard Smith: Will the Big Society help with NHS efficiency savings?
• Martin McShane on tools and workshops
• Anna Dixon: The NHS white paper – what do doctors think of their new roles?
• Chris Ham: Join the debate over the future of NHS managers
• Edward Davies: The NHS white paper (entirely predictable and not very radical)
• Martin McShane: Yes Minister
• Martin McShane: The boa constrictor of bureaucracy
• Douglas Noble on healthcare public health
• Martin McShane: Is there such a thing as evidence based management?
• Martin McShane on boundaries
• Martin McShane on volcanology
• Edward Davies: GP Commissioning. Again.
• Chris Ham on GP commissioning
• Edward Davies: The NHS white paper (entirely predictable and not very radical)

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BMJ Careers articles

• New training boards could be same size as deaneries, says health department
• More consultants opt for early retirement as dissatisfaction with NHS grows
• Practice boundaries are relaxed but pay is static in GMS 2012-13 agreement
• GPs should not be responsible for rationing care, says college chair
• Health department confirms 2013 as date for CQC registration for GPs
• Hospital asks staff to “sacrifice” annual leave to save cash
• Lansley announces mandatory language checks
• Out of hours providers face £800 a year registration fees
• GMC will hold GPs to account for commissioning decisions
• Size restrictions on commissioning groups are eroding GPs’ engagement
• Commissioning groups must work with LMCs, says BMA
• Written complaints to NHS decrease, but concerns over clinical care are rising
• Government proposes "culling" NHS data returns
• Doctors could pay up to £200 000 extra in pension contributions for thousands less on retirement
• Government reports broad support for education and training reforms
• Commissioning will not improve care, find polls of GPs
• Registration of general practices with CQC is pushed back to 2013
• Doctors make the best managers, US study concludes
• Lansley attacks public sector pension reforms
• Half of GPs planning retirement blame NHS reforms
• Doctors to ballot on industrial action over pension reforms
• Private firms must contribute towards doctors' training, says Cameron
• Healthcare reform in England and terms and conditions top the bill at ARM
• Government warned off further changes to pensions
• Retain deaneries and continue national oversight of training, urge health bodies
• Psychiatrists reject abolition of deaneries
• NHS reforms to dominate LMCs conference
• RCGP condemns workforce reforms
• GP trainees feel unprepared for commissioning
• GP commissioning boards are excluding hospital doctors
• GP partners could be more cost effective than salaried GPs
• Involve sessional GPs in commissioning, advises GPC
• Juniors and NHS reform
• Two thirds of sessional GPs are left out of commissioning
• Doctors grill Lansley on reforms
• MDU offers business advice for practices
• Leading GP commissioning
• Doctors must be fully accountable for commissioning
• Over half of GPs doubt that healthcare reforms will improve NHS
• Questions remain about management of poor practitioner performance in GP consortiums
• Employers views sought on future commissioning of education and training
• GPs want pay linked to commissioning
• GP commissioning skills
• Colleges dismayed by possible U-turn on maternity services
• Some trusts 'forcing' GPs to set up commissioning consortia
• GPs fear they lack commissioning skills
• GPs fear NHS job contracts will deby them right to chose consortia staff
• Do GPs want to commission?
• Commissioning: com-mission impossible?

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External links

• Department of Health 'to blame' for CQC failings
• CCGs 'too stupid' to choose commissioning support
• Care regulator 'struggled to deliver'
• DoH allows senior managers to take on lead role in CCGs
• DoH encourages CCGs to use most economic commissioning support
• Patients physically harmed by NHS cuts and bad management, says surgeon
• NHS shakeup in danger of harming patients, risk assessments show
• Coalition health bill will undermine NHS, says OECD thinktank
• New funding formula could be used to set practice commissioning budgets
• BMA seeks talks with government over commissioning support 'privatisation' plans
NHS in most dangerous time in history, NHS chief executive warns
• NHS shakeup in danger of harming patients, risk assessments show
• Andy Burnham on the NHS bill: 'Tories distrust national planned healthcare'
• NHS bill is 'privatisation by stealth' of healthcare
• Philip Gould to Labour: fight the NHS bill but never abandon mantle of reform
• NHS reforms will exacerbate the postcode lottery of healthcare
• NHS waiting list rise prompts government U-turn
• Lansley defends DoH's reluctance to publish NHS reform 'risk register'
• Health Secretary has been told by the Information Commissioner to release information concerning risks associated with the NHS reform bill
• NHS reforms are a 'pointless waste' top midwife warns
• CCG ‘critical role’ in identifying disinvestment areas
• Private firm to run NHS hospital
• NHS care quality comes under fire
• Integration can only happen with single budget for health and social care
• New NHS regulator ‘risks failure’
• Patients to be allowed to remain registered with family doctors after moving home
• House of Lords will be able to vote on key NHS clause
• Andrew Lansley dilutes plans to give patients unfettered choice of GP
• Commissioning board chief admits ‘I don‘t use the NHS’
• Lansley in practice boundary U-turn
• NHS reforms: Interactive Health Bill timeline
• Lansley to ‘remove’ NHS managers who don‘t meet foundation hospital deadline
• Liberal Democrat peers end war with Tories over reform of NHS
• NHS power will be held by quango, leaked document reveals
• New u-turn on Health Secretary‘s responsibility for NHS
• SNP conference: UK government 'breaking up NHS'
• Doctors and nurses will lose jobs in changing NHS, says leading Tory
• ‘Stop the marketisation of health’, says RCGP chair
• DoH to re-think incentives for NHS integration
• Lords reject bid to block Conservative NHS bill
• Andrew Lansley forced to assist struggling NHS trusts
• Battle for NHS reform in Lords is just beginning
• One hospital trust in five is struggling for survival
• Epsom and St Helier NHS trust facing £38m funding gap
• Health ministers write to Lords in last-ditch bid to save Health Bill
• NHS will not be privatised or undermined, says health secretary
• BMA renews call for Health Bill withdrawal
• NHS will not fund some operations, patients told
• Health is a lottery in out-of-control NHS, warns top surgeon
• GPs deliver 4,000-strong petition against Health Bill to DoH
• Three NHS call centres to close, says union
• NHS faces 'unprecedented financial challenge'
• NHS hospitals will not be privatised under Labour, Healey says
• NHS chief challenges Andrew Lansley's foundation hospitals plan
• MPs predicted to back Health Bill in key debate
• NHS Choices saves NHS almost £95m each year
• List of NHS bodies that have artificially increased waiting times
• Hospitals must close to keep NHS viable, warns former NHS chief executive
• Labour attacks NHS bill amendments
• NHS pays spin doctors more than cancer experts
• Who wants responsibility for healthcare delivery? Not Andrew Lansley
• Number of NHS patients waiting more than four hours in A&E doubles
• NHS trusts needed bailouts to help balance books
• Andrew Lansley condemned over HealthWatch scheme
• DH rejects 'competition expansion' claim
• GP leaders warn of 'adverse consequences' from Government plans to publish GP data
• DH reveals efficiency drive will focus on benchmarking GP costs
• Andrew Lansley is wrong – GPs do not support this NHS bill
• Heart tsar attacks Health Secretary's NHS reform
• Gerada: Health bill should be amended again or withdrawn
• NHS hospital wins right to challenge closure of children's heart surgery unit
• Waits rise 'leaves NHS struggling to cope'
• NHS figures show system is ailing under pressure of cuts, warns chief medic
• Doctors hailed for reforms success
• NHS chiefs warn of rising hospital waiting times
• Radical change in the NHS is essential
• Future Forum to carry on scrutinising controversial health bill changes
• Hospitals 'named and shamed' on bedsores record which costs NHS £4bn a year
• NHS listening exercise cost £100,000
• Milburn calls amended NHS plans 'a car crash'
• NHS reform principles intact, Andrew Lansley insists
• Cameron backs wholesale changes to NHS plans
• Meldrum: Time to move on
• The National Wealth Service: an investigation by the Independent reveals conflicts of interest that could give GPs a licence to print money
• NHS rethink shows strong leadership, says David Cameron
• Around 3,700 GPs plan to retire over NHS reforms
• NHS changes: GPs want 'more concessions'
• Cameron outlines changes to NHS reforms after criticism
• Cameron's pledges on the NHS are a desperate plea to be trusted
• Public outcry at health reforms forces Cameron to back down
• David Cameron abandons deadline for NHS reforms
• NHS health reforms could change - Andrew Lansley
• GP quality premium opens new divisive front on health bill
• GPC urges Government to remove GP commissioning incentives from health bill
• Lansley's spin doctor silenced after briefing against Clegg
• GP consortiums 'may not be accountable' for £60bn NHS spend
• Planned GP consortia could lead to chaos – and top-down diktats
• Andrew Lansley will not quit over health reforms, says Downing Street
• Off the record: PM promises 'substantive' concessions
• Hospital doctors want a place on GP boards
• Strong calls for broader membership for Consortia
• Health bill faces further delays as Clegg vows not to 'bounce' through legislation
• Tory MP declares NHS reform 'red lines'
• NHS reform bill sent back to MPs for examination
• YouTube: Andrew Lansley rap (warning: mild swearing)
• The BMA questions Andrew Lansley
• Pulse: Regional members pile pressure on BMA with vote to oppose health bill
• Health and Social Care Bill 2011
• Pulse: Health and Social Care bill 2011
• Guardian NHS microsite
• BMA NHS reform page
• Pulse: Pioneering pathfinder consortium signs referral management deal with UnitedHealth UK
• NHS white paper for England: Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS
• 10 Downing Street web chat with health secretary Andrew Lansley
• BMA response to the white paper
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• The King's Fund
• Royal College of Nursing
• Healthcarerepublic
• Pulse: Health Bill to cull NHS management and give GPs power to commission