Colleagues from HSMC and Rand Europe discuss whether Primary Care Networks and Models of Vertical Integration can coexist.
New research from the BRACE Centre reveals how hospitals could step in to help manage GP practices.

In several places in the UK, GP practices are now being run by NHS hospitals, enabling some GP practices to continue that would otherwise have closed, says a new study.
Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion win prestigious Emerald Award.
Prof Judith Smith, Sarah Parkinson and Dr Manbinder Sidhu discuss in their evaluation, concerns pertaining to PCNs, its increasing progress and, its collective working with various practices.
A discussion of evidence based practice when assessing sexual behaviours in children and young people.

Primary care networks need to increase the engagement of GP practices and wider primary care teams, and strengthen their leadership and management, to become firmly established to meet the challenges ahead.
A study based on narratives from primary care practitioners, documenting their experiences during the pandemic.
The University of Birmingham team were asked by Department of Health and Social Care to look at different approaches to shaping care markets, and which work best.
The University of Birmingham and the Community Hospitals Association are hosting an important seminar series on the value and place of community hospitals in the UK.
Dr King-Hill explores why 'divide-and-rule' tactics in the face of the coronavirus are not working for the UK's exhausted, fractured population.
The University of Birmingham to be a partner in a new project led by Rape Crisis England & Wales (RCEW)