via the Daily Mail
Health Minister Ben Bradshaw said: "We invested significant extra funding in GP services both to improve services and reward GPs.
"We expect a certain level of these profits to be invested back into their businesses, to bring about further improvements in services for patients, such as longer opening hours or widening the […]
Smoking ban costs will be £100m over budget
The Department of Health estimated that the bill for the ban, that comes into force in a month’s time, would run to £1.6 billion.
While this takes into account paying for advertising, falling tobacco duty and hiring extra staff to police the ban, the Government has said it will […]
It’s interesting to read this defence of homeopathy.
" Recent research carried out at the hospital includes a clinical trial of acupuncture, showing it to be effective, and cost-effective, for chronic headache, and a trial of Gingko for dementia."
I haven’t read the evidence, but it’s quite possible. There’s a certain remedy that used to come […]
…Call Robo-Nurse
Scientists have been developing robots to treat patients and ease staff shortages. This week ministers will announce plans to develop robotic "medical assistants". In trials, robots that check patients’ ID tags and give them their drugs have cut down dispensing errors. Experts believe they could soon be taking patients’ temperatures, helping to clean and […]
Who is running this? I mean… really.
First off, the MTAS system has a URL that is unsecured. I can see where someone came from with this. If no-one knows the page name, they aren’t going to get in. Of course, that loses things like login audit information and also takes a chance that someone isn’t […]
Police Visit Two Top IVF Clinics
One of the clinics was secretly filmed by Panorama offering unproven treatment to women, potentially risking health.
Unproven treatments? Are they going to start raiding a few other places doing unproven treatments?
Gerry Robinson (ex-Granada, ex-Allied Domecq) has spent 6 months looking into the NHS. There’s a TV series on it starting this week, that I intend to follow, but there’s also a little taster from yesterday’s Telegraph.
It sounds like Gerry’s investigations show the same attitude I sense when I go into hospitals….
The theatres simply weren’t being […]
Smokers accidentally prescribed Viagra
Smokers trying to quit the habit were mistakenly prescribed anti-impotence drug Viagra by doctors. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the error was due to a computer glitch at two city GP practices.
Should at least help with that advice about finding something to do with your hands…
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I’m just wondering exactly how much this is all costing. Well, it’s part of the £20 billion NHS "Supercomputer".
I’ve had a tonsil problem for a while now, so I’ve got referred by my GP to a consultant ENT. So, I get a letter for an appointment request, telling me that I can use "Choose and […]
Hopefully, this posting will be picked up by people searching for ear blockage, or eustation.
If you are suffering from this, you have my sympathies. In my opinion, it’s a complex problem.
None of this is medical advice. Speak to a doctor first. I’m not a doctor, and I’m not medically trained. However, doctors don’t know everything […]
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