News – Page 1756
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Pharmacy law changes to go ahead
The government is to press ahead with changes to the law governing safety in pharmacies.
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New chief at Royal College of Midwives
Cathy Warwick is to take over as chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives.
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Statistics reveal infection death hot spots
The Office for National Statistics has published its first report on deaths involving MRSA and C difficile.The report shows that 217 hospitals and one hospice account for more than 80 per cent of the total number of deaths in England and Wales.
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Welsh hospitals go wireless
Neath Port Talbot Hospital and the Princess of Wales Hospital have launched a wireless network allowing staff to access patient records at the hospital bedside.
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Deprivation 'has little bearing' on winter admissions
Socioeconomic factors have little bearing on emergency admissions to hospital with respiratory illness, a new study has found.
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Plans for the future of British healthcare
Gordon Brown may well not favour a US-style social insurance system to solve the huge problem of the future social and long-term care funding gap in Britain. However, the government certainly does believe that the private sector has a major role to play in delivering a fair, affordable and sustainable ...
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Striving for excellence
I was delighted to see the Healthcare Commission's latest national survey of adult inpatients. This highlights the proportion of patients who rate their care as 'excellent' rather than aggregating together the proportion that rate it 'good, very good or excellent'.
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Cost problems blight healthcare proposals
It is both regrettable and depressingly inevitable that objective debate surrounding Lord Darzi's Healthcare for London vision has been blighted by practical concerns. In my experience, GP surgeries are already struggling to invest in the latest equipment, so it is hardly surprising that the prospect of having to kit themselves ...
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Funding on the front line
I read Michael White's column with interest. I would like to offer a view from the front line. All primary care trusts have mechanisms to consider requests for funding specific drugs or interventions on a named-patient basis in exceptional circumstances. Usually termed as individual patient requests, these are for requests ...
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Mental health requires combined approach
Samantha Allen's article on the non-holistic approach in some mental health services, which too often separates the body from the mind, is spot on.
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Housing crisis
Simon Stevens' suggestion of individual budgets for the whole of a patient's healthcare needs in one year rather than a disease-specific approach is attractive and makes a lot of sense. However, individually tailored and purchased healthcare is not much use if the individual has housing problems or is finding maintaining ...
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Recruit senior managers from medical ranks
Clare Chapman and Professor Ian Gilmore are quite right to encourage the recruitment of senior managers from medical ranks as a means of accelerating the breakdown of 'perceived' barriers between managers and medics.
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Regulator must not ignore social care
Jo Stephenson's article identifies the concerns that many of us in social care have about the creation of the Care Quality Commission and whether it will become fixated on healthcare priorities.
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British drinking habits raise worries
Many adults are ignorant of safe drinking guidelines and a fifth of 11 to 15 year olds say they have tried alcohol.
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Call for better primary care for BME groups
Primary care trusts and GPs must work more closely together to find ways to improve primary care for black and minority ethnic groups, says a new report.
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Public to quiz Scots health boards
Local people will be able to quiz NHS leaders directly at annual review meetings of health boards, the Scottish government has announced.
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Screening help for people with disabilities
Resources to help women with learning disabilities in Wales understand and access breast and cervical screening will be unveiled by health minister Edwina Hart today.
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New measures to improve care for elderly
A group of experts will advise the NHS on better services for falls and fractures under new plans to improve care for older people.In a speech to the King's Fund, health secretary Alan Johnson also announced a review of footcare services and promised more work to reduce waits for hearing ...
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Gordon Brown's speech at the Patient Safety Congress
Visit www.patientsafetycongress.co.uk to watch a video clip of Gordon Brown's speech.
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Gordon Brown visits Patient Safety Congress 2008
Prime minister Gordon Brown has told patient safety managers the success of the NHS is in their hands.