23 April, 2009 HealthcareRepublic
Exclusive: GPs believe contractor status threatened
Just a fifth of GPs believe the independent contractor model of general practice will survive the next decade, a GP newspaper poll has...
23 April, 2009 Daily Express
NOW RYANAIR PLANS A FAT TAX FOR OBESE PASSENGERS
BUDGET airline Ryanair yesterday raised the prospect of humil­iating weigh-ins for passengers after proposing a fat...
23 April, 2009 Nursing Times
GP pay changes: worst hit PCTs revealed
| By Helen Crump The Department of Health has published a list of the primary care trusts which will be most disadvantaged as a result of changes to the way GP pay is...
23 April, 2009 E-Health Insider
BMA calls for more training simulators
The British Medical Association has called for more investment in simulators and skills labs to maintain training opportunities for junior doctors as their hours come...
22 April, 2009 Pulse Today
The Budget hasn't quite left the NHS alone
Primary care has got off fairly lightly - but there is a sting in the tail for hospital...
22 April, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk
Tell us when dodgy doctors are struck off abroad: General Medical Council
Patients could be being treated by foreign doctors who have been banned from practising in their own countries, the General Medical Council has warned, as it called for new laws to tighten controls in...
22 April, 2009 Sunday Express
ARCHDEACONS DAUGHTER DIES AFTER BUYING DRUGS ON THE INTERNET
A CORONER warned ­yesterday about the dangers of buying medication on the internet after a 22-year-old woman died after taking banned...
21 April, 2009 EHI Primary Care
What is in store for QoF?
Prof Helen Lester Love it or hate it the Quality and Outcomes Framework is a key part of daily life for every practice in the UK as well as accounting for roughly a third of GPs...
21 April, 2009 BBC News UK
NHS safety drive 'saving lives'
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Staff at Swansea's Morriston Hospital explain how they are tackling the problem of pressure...
20 April, 2009 The Times
Tobacco, pollution and freedom
Should smoking in public be made...
20 April, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk
100 days to save surgeons' training, leaders warn
The health service has just 100 days to save doctors' training or face generations of surgeons less skilled than their predecessors, doctors' leaders have...
20 April, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk
Urgent care centres 'putting patients' lives at risk', doctors warn
The introduction of medical centres designed to ease the pressure on overstretched A&E departments is putting patients' lives at risk, doctors have...
20 April, 2009 Daily Mail
Casualty reforms 'are putting lives at risk'
) Lives are being put at risk by the introduction of medical centres designed to take the pressure off overstretched A& E departments, doctors have...
18 April, 2009 Daily Mail
Paramedics told: 'Let accident victims die if they want to' in new row over patient rights
) Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to...
18 April, 2009 Daily Express
END OF LIFE DECISIONS MADE BY PATIENTS
PARAMEDICS can allow seriously ill patients to die even if relatives beg them to save their lives, it emerged...
18 April, 2009 Online Sun
Paramedics told: Let victims die if they ask
PARAMEDICS are being ordered NOT to resuscitate severely injured accident victims who have registered in advance a wish to die, it was revealed last...
17 April, 2009 BBC News Humber
Doctors 'must root out bad care'
NHS staff - and in particular doctors - must do more to tackle bad care, the head of the new health regulator...
17 April, 2009 EHI Primary Care
New logo identifies safe online pharmacy
One in four GPs have treated patients for adverse reactions to medicines bought online, according to a survey. The poll of 483 GPs carried out by GP newspaper found that 25% reported treating patients for adverse reactions to drugs bought on the web and a further 8% said they may have done...
16 April, 2009 BBC News UK
GPs warn on internet drug sales
Doctors have warned of the perils of buying medicines over the internet. One in four GPs polled said they had treated patients for adverse reactions to medicines bought...
15 April, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk
Warning over internet drugs as a quarter of GPs treat patients for complications
One in four GPs has treated patients for side effects of drugs bought online, prompting experts to warn about the dangers of purchasing medication on the...