By Mike Waites Health Correspondent The Commons public accounts committee said it was too easy for GPs to earn big salary increases under a performance-related pay deal agreed in 2004 which cost taxpayers an extra 1.8m in its first three years.

Exeter's Samaritans group have staged an exhibition of sculptures entitled 'Good Grief/Bald Statements'. The work, displayed at St Martin's Church in the city, charted the feelings experienced by artist Jean Parker during her recovery from cancer.

By Jane Kirby GPs are undermining choice in the NHS by operating "gentleman's agreements" not to take on each other's patients, a health minister says. Ben Bradshaw yesterday outlined plans to reform how GPs are paid, saying the current system dampened the incentive to attract new patients.

By Colin Brown Deputy Political Editor Family doctors are to be forced to open their lists to new patients under radical reforms to allow people to shop around for the best GP practices.

The row over Government plans to impose "polyclinics" across the Westcountry descended into farce when ministers admitted they could not even define what the clinics would do.