Chancellor announces major changes in UCLA health sciences leadership
UCLA
Dr. John Mazziotta
In an email to the UCLA campus community, Chancellor Gene Block today announced that Dr. John Mazziotta, a world-renowned brain imaging expert who established the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, has been appointed vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, effective March 1.
Block also announced that Dr. David Feinberg will step down from his position as president of UCLA’s health system and CEO of UCLA’s hospital system on May 1 to become president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania.
“While all of us are saddened ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 24, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Hospital referral to community pharmacy
It has launched a “toolkit”, endorsed by the Royal College of Physicians, providing practical advice on how to set up an electronic referral system that would address the problem. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - December 15, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
Hospital Referral to Community Pharmacy
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) have endorsed Hospital Referral to Community Pharmacy, the new RPS toolkit which looks at setting up an electronic referral system providing information about a patient’s medicines on discha (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News)
Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News - December 10, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
One in three doctors in the UK want assisted dying legalised
A survey of 8,900 members of the Royal College of Physicians found 37 per cent were in favour of a change in law and a bill on assisted dying is currently making its way through Parliament. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ten-point plan to tackle liver disease published
"Doctors call for tougher laws on alcohol abuse to tackle liver disease crisis," The Guardian reports. But this is just one of 10 recommendations for tackling the burden of liver disease published in a special report in The Lancet.The report paints a grim picture of an emerging crisis in liver disease in the UK, saying it is one of the few countries in Europe where liver disease and deaths have actually increased rapidly over the last 30 years. It concludes with 10 recommendations to tackle the burden of liver disease.The media has approached the recommendations from many different angles, with many sources only ...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 27, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise QA articles Source Type: news
RCP joins calls for NHS funding increase
The Royal College of Physicians has warned politicians that a “crisis of care” in NHS hospitals can “only be avoided by a significant increase in health funding”. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - September 15, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
HSJ Live 15.09.2015: RCP joins calls for NHS funding increase
The Royal College of Physicians has warned politicians that a “crisis of care” in NHS hospitals can “only be avoided by a significant increase in health funding”, plus the rest of today’s news and comment. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - September 15, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Tell your trainees – upcoming careers fairs
The Society for Endocrinology is pleased to continue to support future medical and basic scientist endocrinologists by exhibiting at a number of upcoming careers fairs this autumn. If you know of any medical students or undifferentiated trainees who want to learn more from current specialist trainees about an exciting career in the Endocrinology and Diabetes specialty, then please encourage them to attend these careers fairs:
RCP Medical Careers Day, Royal College of Physicians, London, Saturday 20 September 2014
Scottish Medical Training Careers Fair, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Saturday 20 September 2014
BMJ ...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - August 28, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Nurse staffing and mortality in stroke centers
(PLOS) Hospital staffing levels have been associated with patient outcomes, but staffing on weekends has not been well studied. To helpaddress the paucity of research, Dr. Benjamin Bray of King's College London and Royal College of Physicians, UK, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study of weekend staffing with stroke specialist physicians for patients admitted to 103 stroke units in England, published in this issue of PLOS Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 19, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Tell your trainees – upcoming medical careers fairs
As part of our commitment to recruit higher numbers of trainee doctors into the endocrinology and diabetes specialty, we are exhibiting at a number of medical careers fairs this autumn:
RCP Medical Careers Day, Royal College of Physicians, London, Saturday 20 September 2014
Scottish Medical Training Careers Fair, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Saturday 20 September 2014
BMJ Careers Fair, Business Design Centre, London from Saturday 17 to Sunday 18 October 2014
All medical students and/or undifferentiated trainee doctors are welcome - hope to see you there! (Source: Society for Endocrinology)
Source: Society for Endocrinology - July 14, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Jeremy Hunt must investigate statins advice panel, says Labour
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, should launch an investigation into the panel which approved new NHS guidence telling millions of people to take statins, Labour's shadow health minister says (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - June 11, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Richard Thompson nice Royal College of Physicians heart disease jeremy hunt nhs statins Source Type: news
New NHS statins guidance 'risks harming patients'
Telling millions of healthy people to take statins risks harming "many patients over many years", doctors warn Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, and watchdogs (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - June 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Richard Thompson nice Royal College of Physicians heart disease jeremy hunt nhs statins Source Type: news
High proportion of NHS staff feel swift and effective action is not taken to deal with inappropriate behaviours, new survey finds
21 May 2014
Two fifths (43 per cent) of NHS staff feel that swift and effective action is not taken to deal with inappropriate behaviours and performance in their organisation, a survey published today by The King’s Fund has found.The survey of more than 2,000 NHS clinicians and managers also found that a noticeable proportion of executive board members (16 per cent) did not think that swift and effective action is being taken, with only 58 per cent thinking that it is. Dealing with inappropriate behaviour effectively is an important process to ensure the right cultures are fostered ...
Source: The King's Fund - Press - May 20, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Significant variation in standards of care for people dying in hospitals
The National Care of the Dying Audit for Hospitals led by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) reports today (Thursday 15 May) significant variations in care across hospitals in England. (Source: Alzheimers Society)
Source: Alzheimers Society - May 15, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news
Audit of NHS care for the dying published
“Thousands of patients are “dying badly” in NHS hospitals every year,” The Independent reports. An audit, carried out by the Royal College of Physicians, found some NHS trusts are failing to adhere to agreed guidelines on palliative care.
Other problems, identified by the audit, and picked up by the media include “Sick and elderly patients are not being told they are dying in more than half of cases,” as The Daily Telegraph reports, and how “Only a fifth of hospitals have specialist palliative care workers on duty on Saturdays and Sundays” the Daily Mail reports.
The audit, despite the tone of much of the r...
Source: NHS News Feed - May 15, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Older people QA articles Source Type: news
