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There has been a lot of commentary around the blogosphere about Sergey Brin’s blog post in which he announced that his SNP profile includes one variant which significantly increases his risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.

There is still some debate over The Junior Doctor at the focus of the Paice, Black, Needham gossip case. Is he still suspended or is he not? Here is The Oldest Sage Witch’s opinion, for what it is worth: The problem is that regardless of the rights or wrongs of what this doctor may have said

” The GPC will aim to get polyclinics blocked by local government in the next phase of its campaign to support general practice. Following the 1.2 million-signature petition supporting existing surgeries, a follow-up campaign aiming to keep the momentum is set to be launched in the next few

Glory be, they are all rising like phoenixes! (Except Dr Crippen. What’s happened to Crippen anyway? He vanished last year and caused quite a stir! A break he calls it. A break! Only MP’s have a break like this! Is he locked up in The Tower? ) Anyway, the rest are all back blogging! Some have never left, of course, except to put up the “GONE FISHING” notice when they need a holiday.

A week with the wind and the rain in his hair has refreshed The Jobbing Doctor. He’s back! With thoughts of Orwell, he’s back! MISSION PARTIALLY ACCOMPLISHED But the mission so far, is only partially accomplished. Will it be fully accomplished? That is up to patients and doctors.

FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATED CARE PILOTS Forgive me. I’m sure it is due to the weakness of an aging witches brain, but I cannot find any meat to chew over in this statement by The NHS Alliance. Or, in The Darzi Report either, for that matter. Perhaps the younger witches will be able to forage away till they find something I’m missing.

POLCLINICS WILL BE IMPOSED “Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, said the new information, gathered by the Conservatives under the Freedom of Information Act, demonstrated the Health Secretary’s pledges to be “no more than spin”.

WHY IT IS DIFFICULT FOR NEWLY QUALIFIED GPS TO FIND WORK Practices are afraid to take on new staff and some are looking for new ways of minimising risk. ” Some are even resorting to employing GPs under a new type of ‘fixed-share partner’ agreement, with recruits sharing the risks without receiving

45,000 PATIENTS SIGN DOWNING STREET PETITION This is nearly TEN TIMES more than the response to the official London consultation. “Patient choice” is shooting you in the foot, Mr Johnston. You could, of course get angry with patients for indicating their choice just as you have attacked Primary Care Trusts when they tried to disobey.

“Pulse” has some news on polyclinics health centres : POLYCLINICS PLANS IN RETREAT IN BRITAIN’S TWO BIGGEST CITIES Although, in this great democracy of ours, the following may also be true: “Birmingham LMC secretary Dr Robert Morley welcomed the committee’s decision but warned polyclinic procurements were a ‘fait accompli’.