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Health Bill risks fragmented care for people with diabetes
The charity urged the Government to make vital changes to the new Health and Social Care Bill, warning that the integration and continuity of high quality care for people with diabetes could suffer as a consequence of competition policy and the fragmented commissioning of services.
The charity submitted its written briefing to the Bill Committee on 17th February and expressed concerns that new arrangements could have a detrimental effect across England on the three million people with diabetes. They will no longer have one healthcare body to turn to and hold accountable for providing integrated care. Diabetes UK Chief Executive Barbara Young quoted.
http://www.primarycaretoday.co.uk/medcon/?pid=4270&lsid=4281&edname=29446.htm&ped=29446
Diabetics could be spared pain of daily jabs
Daily injections of insulin for diabetics could soon be replaced by jabs needed only three times a week. A longer-acting form of insulin, called degludec, works as well as once-a-day medication for patients with type 2 diabetes, a study found.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1364781/Diabetics-spared-pain-daily-jabs.html
NHS shake-up 'like gas and water privatisation'
The shake-up of the NHS in England has been likened by doctors' leaders to the privatisation of the gas, electricity and water industries. Under the changes, regulators will be encouraged to ensure there is fair competition between NHS trusts and private health firms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12687464
Call to vaccinate against possible H2N2 flu pandemic
Governments should launch a vaccination programme now to guard against a possible H2N2 flu pandemic, according to an article in the journal Nature. The US authors say immunity to the H2N2 flu strain is very low in people under the age of 50.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12691894
Hospital test delays rise 60 per cent in past year
Official figures show that more than 11,000 people are now being forced to wait longer than six weeks for scans and internal examinations, after targets for treatment times were scrapped. Hundreds more patients are having to endure delays of more than 13 weeks before they find out if they have cancer or heart disease.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...est-delays-rise-60-per-cent-in-past-year.html
Why you should be worried if your doctor says you're GPO (Good for Parts Only): GPs' secret language revealed
Hospital doctors may treat their patients with professional concern. But privately they could well be summing them up as GLMs, FLKs or even TBPs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...re-GPO-CLL--GPs-secret-language-revealed.html
The charity urged the Government to make vital changes to the new Health and Social Care Bill, warning that the integration and continuity of high quality care for people with diabetes could suffer as a consequence of competition policy and the fragmented commissioning of services.
The charity submitted its written briefing to the Bill Committee on 17th February and expressed concerns that new arrangements could have a detrimental effect across England on the three million people with diabetes. They will no longer have one healthcare body to turn to and hold accountable for providing integrated care. Diabetes UK Chief Executive Barbara Young quoted.
http://www.primarycaretoday.co.uk/medcon/?pid=4270&lsid=4281&edname=29446.htm&ped=29446
Diabetics could be spared pain of daily jabs
Daily injections of insulin for diabetics could soon be replaced by jabs needed only three times a week. A longer-acting form of insulin, called degludec, works as well as once-a-day medication for patients with type 2 diabetes, a study found.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1364781/Diabetics-spared-pain-daily-jabs.html
NHS shake-up 'like gas and water privatisation'
The shake-up of the NHS in England has been likened by doctors' leaders to the privatisation of the gas, electricity and water industries. Under the changes, regulators will be encouraged to ensure there is fair competition between NHS trusts and private health firms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12687464
Call to vaccinate against possible H2N2 flu pandemic
Governments should launch a vaccination programme now to guard against a possible H2N2 flu pandemic, according to an article in the journal Nature. The US authors say immunity to the H2N2 flu strain is very low in people under the age of 50.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12691894
Hospital test delays rise 60 per cent in past year
Official figures show that more than 11,000 people are now being forced to wait longer than six weeks for scans and internal examinations, after targets for treatment times were scrapped. Hundreds more patients are having to endure delays of more than 13 weeks before they find out if they have cancer or heart disease.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...est-delays-rise-60-per-cent-in-past-year.html
Why you should be worried if your doctor says you're GPO (Good for Parts Only): GPs' secret language revealed
Hospital doctors may treat their patients with professional concern. But privately they could well be summing them up as GLMs, FLKs or even TBPs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...re-GPO-CLL--GPs-secret-language-revealed.html