News – Page 2657
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We've seen the carrot, but what shape is the stick?
comment Cheap jibes at 'bureaucrats' won't win the improvements everyone seeks
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Inadmissible evidence
Refusing to admit a patient to intensive care is guaranteed to generate media hype about bed provision.But little research has been done on optimum ICU bed numbers. Klim McPherson and Alison Metcalfe report
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Barrier grief
PCTs have ambitions to achieve a wholesale shift in resources to primary care. But how will they succeed where health authorities have failed? The obstacles to change should not be underestimated, argues Nigel Edwards
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Swings and roundabouts
It has been an up-anddown ride for one wouldbe PCT, with planning interrupted by a simulation exercise - and awkward questions in the school playground. Julia Squire reports
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'More power for toothless select committees'
Commons select committees - including the health committee - should be given more powers to investigate, monitor and influence government policy, according to an MPs' report.
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In Brief: Government health education programmes ineffective
Government health education programmes are 'loved' by the tobacco industry because 'it knows they are completely ineffective among the population whom it is most anxious to target: young women, ' claimed Norwich North Labour MP Ian Gibson in an adjournment debate on lung cancer in women.He called for a special ...
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In Brief: Government should legislate to protect the human genome sequence
The government should legislate to protect the human genome sequence and prevent human genes being patented, said Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam. He asked: 'What will the cost be to the NHS if the costs of genetic testing have to include royalties to the holder of the ...
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In Brief: The NHS has 'an astonishing lack of understanding of multiple sclerosis'
The NHS has 'an astonishing lack of understanding of multiple sclerosis', said Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP for Sutton and Cheam.MS patients are dealt with in a 'very disorganised and unsystematic way', he said in an adjournment debate.He called for a well-planned and properly delivered service.