Audit shows sixty percent of people with diabetes in England not receiving recommended care

Sixty per cent of the 1.42 million people with diabetes in England included in the latest National Diabetes Audit do not receive all the care recommended for their condition.

BMA leader urges Government to stop “playing around" with the health service

BMA Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum has called on the government to stop playing around with the NHS and to admit when policies have not worked.

In his keynote address to the BMA’s annual representative meeting (ARM) Dr Meldrum, said: “Don’t play around with our health service. It’s not a toy you cast aside and replace with the latest product off the shelf when you’ve tired of it. It needs looking after. It’s our NHS, make it yours too...

BMA Scotland celebrates 10 years of devolution

Legislation to create smokefree public places has been named as the most important policy implemented by the Scottish Parliament in the 10 years since devolution, according to a survey of Scottish doctors conducted by BMA Scotland.

The results of the survey mark the publication of a new BMA Scotland newsletter to celebrate 10 years of devolution and the creation of policy making powers for health in Scotland.

Also featuring in the most popular policies to be implemented in Scotland were...

Cancer; not simply a question of life or death  

Health and social care services are overlooking the long-term physical and emotional effects of cancer survivors, leaving many of the two million people living with or beyond the disease in the UK suffering alone and in silence.

According to Macmillan Cancer Support, cancer survivors are suffering needlessly and in silence: overlooked by health and social care services that frequently miss the long-term physical and emotional effects of the disease...

Health psychologists to be independently and statutorily regulated for the first time  

The Health Professions Council (HPC) will today (1 July 2009) open its Register to health psychologists. The HPC is an independent UK watchdog of health professionals set up to protect the public. The HPC already regulates 185,000 health professionals from 13 different occupations including paramedics, physiotherapists, chiropodists and dietitians.

The HPC will be able to protect the public by keeping a Register of health psychologists who meet their standards for training, professional skills and behaviour...

Health psychologists to be independently and statutorily regulated for the first time  

The Health Professions Council (HPC) will today (1 July 2009) open its Register to health psychologists. The HPC is an independent UK watchdog of health professionals set up to protect the public. The HPC already regulates 185,000 health professionals from 13 different occupations including paramedics, physiotherapists, chiropodists and dietitians.

The HPC will be able to protect the public by keeping a Register of health...

New course for foundation trust company secretaries

The Foundation Trust Network has launched a series of courses for foundation trust company secretaries in partnership with Cass Business School, London.

The company secretary role has been created within Foundation Trusts (FTs) as they have greater freedom to run their own affairs and make commercial decisions, while still remaining part of the NHS. Like company secretaries in the private sector, FT company secretaries have a central role in delivering good governance and sound...

Progress welcomed

Responding to the publication of High Quality Care for All, Our journey so far, Professor Ian Gilmore, President of the Royal College of Physicians, said

“We welcome the progress made since the publication of the first report from Lord Darzi, particularly the focus on the quality agenda. The challenge for the NHS is to ensure that the components of the agenda are practical and deliverable ensuring that the laudable aspirations can be transferred from paper into practice, especially in an increasingly cash-strapped environment...