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GPs are unable to spend time assessing older people at risk of falls and medication errors as they are being “overloaded” with new priorities from NHS England, according to a report. https://t.co/RVOoWiRS1M
People in England will be able to seek treatment for more conditions at their local pharmacy without being referred back to their GP, the government has announced. https://t.co/uSQW9FG4Hj
Tests for internationally trained doctors who want to work in the UK are being dropped at sites in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and India due to declining demand, the medical regulator has announced. https://t.co/VszkNAMhcF
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda is a “public health emergency of international concern”. https://t.co/cneECJlKJT
More than 80% of doctors believe the way advanced practitioners are used in the NHS is a risk to patient safety, according to a large survey. https://t.co/2aIDXS3kV9
Consultants and specialty and associate specialist (SAS) doctors are to vote on whether they would be willing to take strike action, the BMA has announced. https://t.co/CkeFjF30Pr
Recent debate in the UK over the roles of both physician associates and doctors-in-training has brought the issue of job titles in healthcare into sharp focus. https://t.co/kQhvdrbZGg
Violence has become a regular occurrence for staff working in emergency departments across England - so don't be surprised if your doctor or nurse is wearing a body camera.
One doctor told me "If I cast back to 2015 when I qualified, [violence] felt like quite a rare occasion compared to now." He started wearing a camera when a patient pulled a knife on him.
@hantasii It can take five minutes to write a great song, but many years of developing as an artist to produce it. That's what people miss from this I think
Doctors have hailed the arrival of the “landmark” new UK law that will prevent children aged 17 or younger from ever legally buying cigarettes. https://t.co/f8AHoMMWW6
https://t.co/BZDRLxWvgD Health secretary Wes Streeting should not have been given new powers to set cost-effectiveness thresholds for drugs considered for the NHS by NICE, dozens of MPs have said.
EXCLUSIVE for @TheSun - "Evil foster mum allowed her son to rape me & film abuse from the age of 5… there was a shocking reason she walked free" https://t.co/QKlPiNI0eY
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https://t.co/lL2VhnQ0NV Patients needing specialist care could face longer waits due to a government-ordered rise in GPs requesting advice, hospital doctors have warned.
https://t.co/CMLwGTzeuF Two young people who fell through the cracks of the care system recently ended up waiting weeks in an emergency department - but this is just one example of a phenomenon happening across the nation
https://t.co/VmeMYFZKzv Antibiotics and vaccinations are being offered to secondary school pupils in Dorset after three cases of meningococcal disease were confirmed in young people.
https://t.co/r84NIsLbK8 Almost one in five anaesthetists plan to leave the NHS within five years amid widespread burnout, a Royal College of Anaesthetists report states.
https://t.co/KPwZGzFezT Doctors have raised concerns over reports that a physician associate falsified medical notes after failing a lumbar procedure seven times.
https://t.co/FSsZfIoczs Leicester A&E staff have bid farewell to husband-and-wife emergency medicine consultants who have retired after working at the trust for more than two decades.