Cost of waste medicines puts pressure on healthcare budgets

Cost of waste medicines puts pressure on healthcare budgets: So you ordered your repeat prescription a week too early. So there's a bit of a build up in your medicine cupboard. It's only a few pills. What harm can it do?
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Placing patients at the heart of the business plan to improve care and access for all

Placing patients at the heart of the business plan to improve care and access for all: NHS England today published a plan confirming our commitment to putting patients at the heart of improving care now and for future generations.
Putting Patients First: the NHS England business plan for 2013/14 – 2015/16 is a three year plan that will measure how health and care services are performing with a strong emphasis on making sure feedback from patients, their families and NHS staff is heard and acted upon.

NHS should learn from Veterans Health

NHS should learn from Veterans Health: The NHS should swap digital health ideas with the US Veterans Health Administration in order to achieve a paperless NHS, says a report by 2020health. E-Health Insider

Compassion is what’s common in our NHS, not cruelty, says Lisa Rodrigues

Compassion is what’s common in our NHS, not cruelty, says Lisa Rodrigues: Back in 1973 at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, no-one talked about compassion. You were either a good student nurse or a bad one. Or, as in my case, one with plenty of room for improvement. It was a Saturday lunchtime, and I was in handover on the infectious ward. I was allocated … Continue reading » NHS Voices

BMA launches ethical toolkit for medical students

BMA launches ethical toolkit for medical students:

New guidance gives advice on social media and raising concerns about colleagues Related items from OnMedica Junior doctors’ potential too often wasted, report shows Doctors seek more advice on use of social media Commitment to safeguard medical graduate jobs Education and training – the next stage

2013/14 general medical services (GMS) contract: guidance and audit requirements for new and amended services

2013/14 general medical services (GMS) contract: guidance and audit requirements for new and amended services: This guidance includes the two extended clinical Directed Enhanced Services and other new or existing Enhanced Services. It provides primary care organisations with information to help support the continuation or introduction of these services.

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Doctor know: a knowledge commons in health

Doctor know: a knowledge commons in health: This paper argues that society's growing ability to mobilise
knowledge from different fields and sources is beginning to show the potential of a 'knowledge commons' in healthcare: an open system of knowledge with researchers, practicing clinicians, patients, their families and communities all involved in capturing, refining and utilising a common body of knowledge in real time. It sets out what this might mean in practice, and steps that can be taken to get there.

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The friends and family test is unfit for purpose

The friends and family test is unfit for purpose: A well-designed survey can be a powerful tool but the single-question A&E survey being introduced in hospitals is unclear, ambiguous and will not stand up to meaningful analysis.