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		<title>benefit from 100% tax relief before it runs out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) allows health practices to obtain 100% allowances on qualifying capital expenditure.  Currently companies can claim the AIA on expenditure of up to £100,000, but that is about to change. From 1st April 2012, the amount on which the AIA can be claimed is being reduced to £25,000. What does this mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2012/01/24/benefit-from-100-tax-relief-before-it-runs-out/</link>
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		<title>CCG mergers &#8216;should not be forced&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forcing warring practices to create large CCGs &#8220;may not be the best thing for patients&#8221;. It is claimed CCG mergers should not be imposed for fear of trust issues emerging. Speaking at the NHS Alliance&#8217;s annual conference in Manchester yesterday (30 November), Dame Barbara Hakin, National Manager of Commissioning Development at the Department of Health, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/13/ccg-mergers-should-not-be-forced/</link>
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		<title>CCGs &#8216;too stupid&#8217; to choose commissioning support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CCGs should be the same size as current PCT clusters and cover around one million patients to avoid being treated &#8220;like children&#8221;. Dr Richard Vautrey, Deputy Chair of the BMA&#8217;s GP Committee, told MiP that government guidance on commissioning support means &#8216;bigger is better&#8217; for CCGs. In a statement last week, the BMA claimed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/13/ccgs-too-stupid-to-choose-commissioning-support/</link>
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		<title>Failing to work together may risk QIPP success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Practices that fail to work together could see patient numbers drop and their QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) programme &#8220;fall apart&#8221;. Speaking at the NHS Alliance&#8217;s annual conference in Manchester on Wednesday (30 November), Dr Hugh Reeve, Chair of the Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group, said primary care providers will have to commence a radical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/13/failing-to-work-together-may-risk-qipp-success/</link>
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		<title>Practice sexual health confidentiality questioned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[General practice &#8220;may not be the best place to go&#8221; for sexual health services if you don&#8217;t want your mum to find out, the Public Health Minister has said. Speaking at a Westminster Health Forum event today (6 December), Anne Milton drew criticism for appearing to question the privacy of general practice in rural areas. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/13/practice-sexual-health-confidentiality-questioned/</link>
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		<title>Health Secretary urges CCGs to fight back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Health Secretary has told CCGs to &#8216;push back&#8217; against &#8216;bullying&#8217; tactics by PCT and SHA clusters used to dictate size and set-up. Speaking at the NHS Alliance&#8217;s annual conference in Manchester yesterday (30th November), Andrew Lansley told CCG leaders &#8216;bigger isn&#8217;t necessarily better&#8217;. He said even small CCGs are big organisations and advised them to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/13/health-secretary-urges-ccgs-to-fight-back/</link>
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		<title>Plans to share patient data cause privacy concerns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plans to share patient records with private companies &#8220;rings alarm bells&#8221;, the Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said. Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to announce the government&#8217;s desire to open up the NHS to private healthcare firms today. &#8220;The end-game is for the NHS to be working hand-in-glove with industry as the fastest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/13/plans-to-share-patient-data-cause-privacy-concerns/</link>
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		<title>Fear GPs will &#8216;freeze out&#8217; independent providers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An MP fears GPs will begin to freeze out independent providers for the provision of sexual health services under the new public health commissioning arrangements. Speaking at a Westminster Health Forum event today (6 December), Diane Abbott, Shadow Minister for Public Health, slammed the variation of primary care access in England and questioned its place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/13/fear-gps-will-freeze-out-independent-providers/</link>
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		<title>Doctors facing increased pension tax charge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From 2012-13 onwards the lifetime allowance on pension savings for individuals will be reduced from £1.8m to £1.5m.  The contributable amount has been reduced to £50,000 per year. In October 2010 the Government announced changes to the lifetime allowance for tax relief on pensions. There is a limit on the value of retirement benefits an individual can draw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/01/doctors-facing-lifetime-allowance-limit-changes/</link>
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		<title>GP&#8217;s to stop signing off long-term sick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Government backed review of sickness absence was commissioned by the Governments director for Health &#38; Work, Dame Carol Black and the former Director of the British Chamber of Commerce, David Frost. The Independent Review of Sickness Absence has concluded that GPs are to stop signing off the long term sick, and that people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taylorcocks.co.uk/medical/2011/12/01/government-backed-review-concludes-gps-to-stop-signing-off-long-term-sick/</link>
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