Court of Appeal orders NICE to be more open
NICE warns drug appraisals could take longer after drug manufacturers win Alzheimer's legal challenge.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
GP hurt in fatal jet ski crash
A Bradford GP is being treated for shock after her husband died in a jet skiing accident in Australia.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
CV events and atorvastatin
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Are female GPs a drain on the NHS?
The future face of general practice is female. Prisca Middlemiss asked an all-women team for their views.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
E-records 'need patient consent'
A 'significant minority' of GPs are refusing to participate in the summary care record (SCR) programme, say researchers.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
RCN reveals inflation threshold for reopening pay negotiations
The RCN could bail out of the three-year pay deal by Christmas if inflation is 0.1 per cent higher than the government predicts, Independent Nurse can reveal.
05/05/2008 12:00 AM
Health secretary slams lack of access to training
Health secretary Alan Johnson has hit out at NHS organisations that fail to offer nurses access to continuing professional development and training.
05/05/2008 12:00 AM
One in four specialist nurses threatened with redundancy
One in four specialist nurses have been threatened with redundancy in their current post, and jobs remain at risk for one in 20, an RCN survey shows.
05/05/2008 12:00 AM
RCN votes to lobby for HCA regulation
The RCN voted to lobby the government to establish a national standard for training and regulation of advanced healthcare assistants (HCAs) at its congress in Bournemouth last week.
05/05/2008 12:00 AM
Congress briefs
A round-up of news from RCN's 2008 Congress.
05/05/2008 12:00 AM
Darzi pledges change will be clinically driven and locally led
All changes to the health service will be clinically driven and locally led, says the DoH.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Patients demand consultation on extended hours
Extended hours GP services will suffer because patients were not consulted, according to a pressure group.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Practice income protected in influenza pandemic
NHS Employers and the GPC have reached an agreement on the maintenance of the GMS contract across the UK in the event of an influenza pandemic.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
UK-qualified would-be GPs 'will be safe in 2009'
UK-qualified would-be GPs can expect to be safe in 2009 from the pressure on training places caused by the DoH's repeated failure to restrict the access of immigrant doctors to training.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
Lack of community nurses leaves children stuck in hospital
The Royal College of Nursing and the charity WellChild have launched a campaign calling on the DoH to train more specialist community children’s nurses to boost care for children and young people with long-term conditions.
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
GOS contract final draft published
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College trials revised pre-reg examination
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FDA probes problems with Lasik
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Show stoppers
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Global revenues surge at Alcon
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