Labour's
organ donor fiasco grows
Tue, Nov 18, 2008- A change in the law on organ donation may
yet occur, in spite of an expert advisory body rejecting the idea.
Medicines
shortage fears grow
Mon, Nov 17, 2008- British patients face the prospect of drug
shortages as the falling price of medicines makes it more profitable for
pharmacists and wholesalers to sell them abroad.
European
healthcare rankings
Fri, Nov 14, 2008- New report that ranks the UK 13th for healthcare
out of 31 European countries.
NHS
Direct shelves foundation trust plans
Thu, Nov 13, 2008- NHS Direct has put its plans
to become a foundation trust on ice. The decision follows labour government
reluctance to free the national service from central statist control.
Top
up fees- why equality is a cruel doctrine in the NHS
Wed, Nov 12, 2008- It has taken an inexcusably long time, but
last week, the labour Government finally recognised that it was both cruel
and unfair to deny NHS patients who decided to buy themselves drugs that
the NHS would not purchase for them.
Statin
use may benefit healthy in new NICE postcode lottery
Tue, Nov 11, 2008- Guidelines on who is eligible for statins
may need to be rewritten after an international trial found benefits in
"healthy" adults, experts say- leading to a new postcode lottery
for labour's killer quango NICE.
The
last nail in the NHS coffin
Mon, Nov 10, 2008- Top up co-payments are the last nail in the
coffin for the NHS as it opens the door to private providers.
Labour
U turn on NICE's cancer drugs postcode lottery killing policy
Fri, Nov 7, 2008- The rule preventing NHS patients from "topping
up" their treatment is cruel and vindictive. Under just axed guidelines,
anyone paying for drugs with their own money may be deprived of any further
free health care.
Treasury
could snatch £3bn from NHS budget, academic warns
Thu, Nov 6, 2008- The Treasury could try to claw back more than
£3bn out of the NHS to contribute towards the credit crisis bail-out
package, a leading health service academic has warned.
Nine
out of ten preventable deaths in the NHS are not reported
Wed, Nov 5, 2008- Of the estimated 72,000 annual deaths in the
NHS, just 3,200 are recorded by the National Patient Safety Agency, MPs
were told.
Ailing
NHS IT white elephant project takes turn for worse
Tues, Nov 4, 2008- At the turn of the year, it looked as though
the troubled NHS IT (NPfIT) programme to create an electronic patient
record might finally be turning a corner.
Health
Direct- 4 years and 1000 posts on NHS news, advice and information
Mon, Nov 3, 2008- Health Direct has now posted
over 1,000 news, advice and information stories about the NHS during the
past four years.
NHS
data breaches hit 75 in a year
Fri, Oct 31, 2008- Seventy five breaches of data security rules
by the health service have been reported to the information commissioner's
office in the past year, new figures reveal.
NHS
records NPfIT project grinds to halt
Thu, Oct 30, 2008- Progress on the £12bn computer programme
(NPfIT) designed to give doctors instant access to patients’ records
across the country has virtually ground to a halt, raising questions about
whether the world’s biggest civil information technology project
will ever be finished.
Doctors
do not back cervical vaccine choice made by labour ministers
Wed, Oct 29, 2008- The wrong vaccine against cervical cancer
has been chosen by the labour Government and doctors would give their
own daughters the alternative jab, a prominent doctor has warned.
Nanny
state children aged five to get sex education
Tue, Oct 28, 2008- Children as young as five will be given sex
education under labour's nanny state plans to cut teenage pregnancy and
sexually transmitted diseases.
Health
Dept prescription medicines pricing shake up descends into chaos
Mon, Oct 27, 2008- Plans to introduce a new system for setting
the price of prescription medicines have been thrown into chaos by the
Department of Health, potentially costing the health service tens of millions
of Pounds.
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