The NHS should take all possible steps to become an integrated system that dissolves the boundaries separating health, mental health and social care said Norman Lamb, Minister of State for Care and Support (pictured).
National Voices and its partners, the NHS Confederation and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, are calling for a whole-system approach to changing the health and care system.
GPs are to invite MPs into their practices to take a look at the impact of NHS reforms. The scheme is one of a series of initiatives launched today by the BMA.
The NHS Alliance has launched a General Practice Network which it says is “the only network in the health sector to support the whole practice team – practice managers, GPs, nurses, and healthcare assistants.”
Research launched today in Madrid shows almost two thirds (61 percent) of UK-based patients who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) do not feel their condition is well managed.
School nurses in Wandsworth are beginning to contact local GPs about children at their schools who are classed as very obese, as identified by the National Child Measurement Programme.
The European Commission has granted approval to Revlimid (lenalidomide) for the treatment of patients with transfusion-dependent anaemia due to low or intermediate-1 risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) associated with an isolated deletion 5q cytogenetic abnormality when other therapeutic options are failing.
Politicians need to have “an honest conversation with the public about the pressures we face, the money we have and how we spend it in the future,” said Mike Farrar (pictured), Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation.
