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UK Healthcare Crisis: BMJ Study Shows Nurses Overworked, Undertrained
Today, DW is taking a break from covering U.S. health issues and taking a look across the pond. Millie Whitehead discusses recent research that indicates a disturbing trend of missed activities and nursing care for NHS patients. Recently reported research indicates a disturbing trend of missed activities and nursing care for NHS patients. There have also been numerous reports of failing UK hospitals in the mass media. Much has been made of NHS trust and hospital executives and managers allowing bad practice to take place and multiply. Management is under significant pressure to keep costs down while still ensuring good q...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Career Nurses Source Type: blogs

Beating the effects of winter pressures
British Medical Association (BMA) -This briefing paper aims to help explain why there is increased pressure on the NHS in winter, the impact this has on NHS services, and sets out why a longer term solution is needed. Briefing paper BMA - winter pressures (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 20, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs

Autumn statement 2013
HM Treasury -The statement provides an update on the government’s plans for the economy based on the latest forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. Full statement Autumn statement - all documents Responses: Age UK Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations British Medical Association Carers UK Centre for Policy Studies Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Citizens Advice Bureau The Health Foundation Healthcare Financial Management Association Local Government Association National Association for Voluntary and Community Action National Children's Bureau NHS Employers Nuffield Trust...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 6, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs

NHS culture
British Medical Association (BMA) - These discussion papers are part of a series which will be examining the reasons why a negative culture has developed in parts of the NHS and how it can be turned around. The first two papers look at professionalism and supporting doctors in raising concerns. Examining professionalism Supporting doctors in raising concerns BMA - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 18, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

A normal day at the NHS
Those of us in the US who have been overwhelmed lately by overly excited health care stories in the media look fondly across the Pond. We are confident that we can find a much calmer discourse about these issues in the UK. After all, a single payer system, well established, and held in fond regard by the populace can’t be very controversial. Well maybe. Here’s a synopsis of one day’s news coverage about the NHS from The Times and The Daily Telegraph. Make sure you read all the way to the last one. My head is spinning.•A hospital trust whose staff were allegedly forced to alter waiting times...
Source: Running a hospital - November 17, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

UK Taxpayers Suffer As Pharma Commits 'Highway Robbery'?
A pricing scandal is unfolding in the UK, where drugmakers are being accused of exploiting a loophole that allegedly is costing the National Health Service – and taxpayers – tens of millions each year. And while the maneuver is legal, the British Medical Association is charging the pharmaceutical industry is committing ‘highway robbery,’ according to The Independent. Basically, the issue is that brand-name drugmakers sell older medicines, which no longer have patent protection, to other drugmakers. The medications are then renamed and sold to the NHS at a much higher price because the drug is not covered by the Pha...
Source: Pharmalot - July 16, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

UK NHS hit for millions by overcharging ‘scam’ - by Sanchez Manning
Drugs companies have been accused of “highway robbery” of the NHS by using a legal loophole to push up the price of medicines in some cases by up to 2,000 per cent – at a cost to the taxpayer of tens of millions a year. At least 15 drugs have substantially increased in price after being “flipped” from one firm to another, according to information obtained by doctors. The legal “scam” has prompted outrage from the British Medical Association – which has warned that vital treatments risk being denied to patients if costs rise so much that the NHS can no longer afford them. The controversial practice invo...
Source: PharmaGossip - July 14, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Meet the new Mr NICE Guy
BiographyProfessor David Haslam is chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).He is also National Clinical adviser to the Care Quality Commission, immediate past-president of the British Medical Association, past-president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and visiting Professor in Primary Health Care at de Montfort University, Leicester.He was a GP in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, for many years and has been chair of the NHS Evidence Advisory Committee, co-chair of the NHS Future Forum Information subgroup, an expert member of the NHS National Quality Board, chair of the NQB Quality ...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 24, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Draft heads of terms for negotiations to achieve a new contract for doctors and dentists in training
This draft document has been jointly agreed with the British Medical Association (BMA), to achieve a new contract for doctors and dentists in training. It follows exploratory talks between the BMA and employers, including representatives from the devolved nations, after concerns that the 13-year-old contract is no longer working as well as it could for NHS employers, doctors and dentists in training and patients. Draft heads of terms NHS Employers - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 21, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

EFPIA Transparency Guidelines: Reporting Payments in Europe
In a recent update from the international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, through its soon-to-be new firm Norton Fulbright (now Norton Rose), the law firm discussed the disclosure of payments to healthcare practitioners in the United Kingdom (UK). The UK pharmaceutical industry has started publicly disclosing aggregate data on payments to healthcare practitioners (HCPs) and consulting on establishing a public register to disclose individual payments from 2016 onwards. As we previously noted, payments from the pharmaceutical industry working with HCPs have been estimated to be around £40 million for 2012 in the U...
Source: Policy and Medicine - June 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry
This report is the result of a public inquiry into the commissioning, supervisory and regulatory bodies in the monitoring of Mid Staffordshire hospital between January 2005 and March 2009. Following the earlier NHS inquiry in 2010, this report considers why the serious problems at the trust were not identified and acted on sooner, and identifies important lessons to be learnt for the future of patient care. It makes 290 recommendations designed to change the culture of care in the NHS; strengthen leadership; and improve openness and transparency. Final report Press release Further reading The King's Fund - ...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 7, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Source Type: blogs

Click The Big Purple WOW – #WOWPetition #disability #ukmh #wheresthedignity?
Click the Purple WOW By clicking the BiG Purple WOW you will be taken to a petition which calls for: “A Cumulative Impact Assessment of all cuts and changes affecting sick & disabled people, their families and carers, and a free vote on repeal of the Welfare Reform Act. An immediate end to the Work Capability Assessment, as voted for by the British Medical Association. Consultation between the Depts of Health & Education to improve support into work for sick & disabled people, and an end to forced work under threat of sanctions for people on disability benefits. An Independent, Committee-Based Inquiry int...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - January 28, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Disability Disability Living Allowance DLA esa Personal Independence Payment welfare reform wow petition Source Type: blogs