Friday 9 October 2015

Doctor who worked at Northamptonshire hospital accused of simulating sex act in front of colleague

Doctor who worked at Northamptonshire hospital accused of simulating sex act in front of colleague A gynaecologist breached conditions imposed by a tribunal after working at Kettering General Hospital without informing the General Medical Council (GMC). Northampton Chronicle and Echo

How fair is your local NHS?

How fair is your local NHS? A policy briefing from the University of York describes work to develop prototype equity indicators to support CCGs’ duties to reduce health inequalities in their local population.

Shared principles for redesigning the local health and care landscape

Shared principles for redesigning the local health and care landscape This document provides local system leaders - local authorities, health and wellbeing boards, clinical commissioning groups, NHS and care providers and patients and the public - with shared principles to ensure that proposals service redesign meet a number of fundamental requirements to assure themselves, their partners and their communities that proposals are focused on improving services and improving health and wellbeing outcomes. Local Government Association

Scale of NHS deficits to be revealed

Scale of NHS deficits to be revealed The scale of the growing financial problems in the NHS in England will become clearer later, when the latest accounts are published. BBC News

Nurse treated for Ebola 'complication'

Nurse treated for Ebola 'complication' A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is readmitted to an isolation unit in London following an "unusual late complication". BBC News

Stop overmedicating people with learning disabilities, says NICE

Stop overmedicating people with learning disabilities, says NICE All too often default position for challenging behaviours, says new quality standard. OnMedica

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Is Jeremy Hunt really backing down in the junior doctors row?

Is Jeremy Hunt really backing down in the junior doctors row? Analysis: Health secretary’s attempt to mollify angry medics could be enough to head off a strike – or it could be seen as a bid to divide and rule.

Jeremy Hunt has written an unusually emollient letter to junior doctors with whom he is locked in a bitter row over pay and working hours. He lauds the 53,000 trainee medics whose work is “vital” to the NHS and seeks to empathise with them in their anger by saying that he is “saddened by the distress that is being caused to junior doctors”.

He offers a combination of clarifications, reassurances and “absolute guarantees” on key points of dispute – and also some genuinely new concessions – in a bid to stop the festering fury producing a vote for strike action. Continue reading... The Guardian

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Ambulances arrive late to nearly a MILLION life-threatening calls in a year - with figures for August the worst since records began

Ambulances arrive late to nearly a MILLION life-threatening calls in a year - with figures for August the worst since records began Ten of the 12 ambulance trusts in England missed key targets which state life threatening calls should be reached within eight minutes over 12 months, figures from NHS England show. The Daily Mail

Why I'll never complain about the NHS again

Why I'll never complain about the NHS again Six years after she broke her back, Judith Woods needed emergency treatment in hospital again - and, this time, could not fault the care. The Daily Telegraph

Tory health minister, Lord Prior, accused over dismantle the NHS meeting

Tory health minister, Lord Prior, accused over dismantle the NHS meeting Unite union says the news reveals 'the influence of private US healthcare on Conservative thinking'. The Independent