Recruitment drive for Northamptonshire nurses

Recruitment drive for Northamptonshire nurses: NHS bosses in Northamptonshire are targeting student nurses for recruitment for the first time.Northampton Chronicle and Echo

Do GP practices that offer high-quality clinical care also offer a good experience for their patients?

Do GP practices that offer high-quality clinical care also offer a good experience for their patients?: Clinically effective care and good patient experience are universally recognised as key elements of health care quality. But does one always go hand in hand with the other?

Ops cancelled over hospital rat

Ops cancelled over hospital rat: About 40 operations at a Nottinghamshire hospital were cancelled after a rat was seen in an operating theatre. BBC News

Cancer costs in UK 'top £15bn'

Cancer costs in UK 'top £15bn': The health and economic cost of cancer tops £15bn a year in the UK, a study suggests. BBC News

Revalidation to cost £1bn over a decade but benefits 'hard to predict'

Revalidation to cost £1bn over a decade but benefits 'hard to predict': Revalidation will cost almost £1bn over a decade and will prevent fewer than one in 133 cases in which poor practice results in death, or severe or moderate harm to a patient, a DH analysis suggests. GP Online

Teaching GPs about depression and suicide can help reduce the risk of suicide in depressed older adults, says new RCT

Teaching GPs about depression and suicide can help reduce the risk of suicide in depressed older adults, says new RCT: A great deal of time and money has been spent on improving the diagnosis and management of depression and self-harm in primary care. The evidence tells us that collaborative care and case management can be effective approaches, which is all well and good, but these complex interventions are not always feasible. This new cluster randomised [read the full story...] The Mental Elf

Department of Health: the management of adult diabetes services in the NHS

Department of Health: the management of adult diabetes services in the NHS: This report is based on evidence from expert witnesses and the Department of Health about the management of adult diabetes services in the NHS. It identifies a variation in service provision and quality of care in adult diabetes across the country and highlights the need for improvement in the quality of diabetes care.

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Regional pay in the NHS

Regional pay in the NHS: This briefing provides background to the House of Commons Opposition-day debate on regional pay in the NHS. The note is divided into three sections: section one sets out some general information on the current national pay framework within the NHS; section two covers the Government’s wider approach to regional or “market facing” pay in the public sector, and section three covers its specific proposals for the NHS.

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Tighter safety needed on medical implants

Tighter safety needed on medical implants:
A report by a committee of MPs has called for EU safety regulations relating to medical implants to be more rigorous.The parliamentary science and technology committee has published a report called Regulation of medical implants in the EU and the UK. The committee said they had proof that some manufacturers were trying to get their implants improved in the EU states that had the least strict regul... Healthcare Today

Failings in diabetes care 'cost thousands of lives'

Failings in diabetes care 'cost thousands of lives': 'Diabetes care depressingly poor, say MPs', is the headline on the BBC News website. This is the damning verdict of a parliamentary report into standards of diabetes care in the NHS. The Public Accounts Committee reported that (in the words of the Daily Mail), “24,000 with diabetes ‘are dying needlessly’”.

What do people die of? Mortality rates and data for every cause of death in 2011 visualised

What do people die of? Mortality rates and data for every cause of death in 2011 visualised: How do we die? Are you more likely to get knocked down by a car, bitten by a dog or fall down the stairs? Find out with the latest mortality statistics

GP postcode lottery harming patients, warns thinktank

GP postcode lottery harming patients, warns thinktank: GP surgeries in London and England's poorest areas offer the lowest-quality NHS care, King's Fund study shows
Londoners and people in deprived areas receive the lowest-quality care by GPs, according to research that has prompted fresh concern about postcode lotteries in NHS care.

Cancer overtakes heart disease as number one killer

Cancer overtakes heart disease as number one killer: Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the country's number one killer, new figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. The Daily Telegraph

Doctors defend Liverpool Care Pathway as 'dignified' way to die

Doctors defend Liverpool Care Pathway as 'dignified' way to die: More than 1,000 doctors, nurses and carers write to Telegraph to defend Liverpool Care Pathway. The Daily Telegraph