Public Health England (PHE) intends to pilot a strategy to identify how older workers can be supported in the workplace. The strategy is planned to launch in Greater Manchester to highlight the assistance older workers require if they wish to work longer hours. PHE revealed that this comes as part of a new plan which … [Read more…]
The health of thousands of patients throughout the UK is at risk after a dentist failed to carry out basic hygiene requirements when providing treatment. NHS England has announced it will do a ‘significant patient recall’ after the dentist was revealed to have breached infection control standards. Dr Rosemary Gillespie, chief executive at Terrence Higgins … [Read more…]
The row between the UK and Wales’ governments intensified recently following the Daily Mail’s series of reports which claimed that Wales provided poor care and suffered from serious failings. Dr Alan Rees, vice president of the Royal College of Physicians in Wales has defended the Welsh healthcare system and said that though the service has … [Read more…]
NHS England’s out-of-hours services provided by GPs has been blasted by MPs. It has been deemed to possess ‘ineffective’ oversight and ‘conflicts of interest’ in out-of-hour GP services. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said NHS England had ‘not provided effective’ oversight of the quality of service out-of-hours GPs were providing and whether it was value … [Read more…]
The list of expensive drugs covered by the prime minister’s special fund for such life-saving drugs is said to be removing some vital cancer medicines from the selection. England’s Cancer Drugs Fund was designed by Prime Minister, David Cameron in 2010 to provide patients with access to effective treatments that were deemed too costly for … [Read more…]
