24 Şubat 2014 Pazartesi

Right now in healthcare: Monday 24 February

Excellent morning and welcome back to the day-to-day website from the Guardian’s community for healthcare experts, offering a roundup of the important news stories across the sector. In case you missed it, here’s our digest of final week’s prime healthcare stories.


If there’s a story, report or event you’d like to highlight – or you would like to share your ideas on any of the healthcare issues in the information nowadays – you can get in touch by leaving a comment under the line or tweeting us at @GdnHealthcare.


The Guardian reviews on a warning that sufferers will fail to get a GP appointment when they are unwell on more than 34m occasions in England this 12 months due to the fact funding cuts are affecting companies. The Royal University of GPs says practices are getting brought to their knees by an unprecedented fall in funds for healthcare in the community and increasing demand for their companies. The college’s chairman, Dr Maureen Baker, explained:



GPs and practice nurses can not maintain undertaking much more for significantly less and now that funding for standard practice in England has slumped to just eight.5% of the NHS price range the support we give is in crisis.


All three political parties say they want to see much more individuals currently being treated in the local community, the place care can be supplied to sufferers far more economically, in their own surroundings, and but assets are increasingly getting diverted away from communities and into hospitals.


By continually diverting resources into hospitals, we have fuelled a real and increasing crisis in common practice.



Elsewhere, the Telegraph says the healthcare records of every single NHS hospital patient in the country have been offered for insurance purposes.


A lot more healthcare information:


• Nursing Times: Employers moot move to ‘living wage’ shell out strategy


• GP online: CCGs push for NHS England collaboration to decommission underperforming GPs


• eHealth Insider: Birmingham invests £7m in e-prescribing


A review by watchdog Monitor found the quantity of NHS foundation trusts in England in financial problems has virtually doubled in a 12 months from 21 to 39, the Guardian reported.


In other information:


• Independent: Drinking alcohol even though pregnant could grow to be a crime


• Telegraph: Worst hospitals price NHS £300m


• Independent: 1000′s of HIV individuals go hungry as benefit cuts hit


• BBC: Councils want social networks to introduce Neknominate warnings


The BMA has compiled a guide to what’s occurring in Westminster this week, like a well being committee session on the care.information project.


That is all for these days, we’ll be back tomorrow with our digest of the day’s healthcare information.



Right now in healthcare: Monday 24 February

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