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iWantGreatCare
controversial patient ranking of doctors. should shake things up a bit...
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Fresh trouble for NHS IT system | Technology | The Guardian
Last summer, even the outgoing director-general of NHS IT, Richard Granger, admitted: "It really isn't usable because they have been building a system ... without listening to what the end users want."
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NHS Cervical Screening Programme
NHS Cervical Screening Programme, public info
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The screening industry -- Smith 326 (7395): -- BMJ
comment on low effectiveness of cervical screening
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cold hearted beasts that they areMMC Inquiry
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Modernising Pathology IT â⊘⊘ HL7 Messaging â⊘⊘ NHS Connecting for Health
As part of its Modernising Pathology Programme, the Department of Health is working in partnership with NHS Connecting for Health and other key stakeholders to improve IT connectivity between GP practices and pathology laboratories.
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Google CEO Unveils Google Health Initiative | Epicenter from Wired.com
Google CEO Eric Schmidt finally spilled the beans about Google Health at a conference in Florida (the video of the speech is expected to be uploaded to YouTube soon). Marissa
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Personal electronic health records: MySpace or HealthSpace? -- Kidd 336 (7652): 1029 -- BMJ
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The Devil's Kitchen: Patricia Hewitt: terminally stupid
Hilarious and vulgar...
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BBC NEWS | Health | Herceptin 'linked to heart risk'
So will the selfish, myopic woman who demanded this expensive drug at public expense, with Ministerial support, continue to use it?
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Independent Online Edition > Health Medical
"Would you take a flight in hazardous conditions if you knew that the pilot was actually an air-hostess who had watched quite a lot of pilots at work?"
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NHS Blog Doctor: The role of the nurse-specialist in the modern National Health Service
Strongly worded moan about nurses doing medicine, not nursing. "It has recently been realised that nurses are vastly more intelligent than medical students. They do not even need to go to university."
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BBC NEWS | Health | Doctor manslaughter charges rise
"Threats or fears of prosecution do not result in better health systems."
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ourpetition.org
"The most effective way for citizens to ensure NHS reform will be successful is to make certain that those who are responsible for creating the public health system voluntarily agree to exclusively use the same system, without opt-out..."
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UK Clinical Research Collaboration
The UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) is a partnership of organisations working to establish the UK as a world leader in clinical research, by harnessing the power of the NHS. Our aim is to re-engineer the environment in which clinical research i
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Court Backs Briton's Right to a Costly Drug - New York Times
A glimmer of sense at the end of the article: "Every pound spent on one expensive drug or treatment is potentially at the expense of other patients. These decisions are extremely difficult and best taken as close to the patient as possible."
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Independent Online Edition > Health Medical > NHS crisis?
"We're spending £94bn on the health service this year, compared with £52bn six years ago... so why are wards shut down, operations cancelled and trusts in turmoil?"
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BBC NEWS | In Depth | NHS reform
Good starting point for NHS reform research
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Which career first? -- Bewley et al. 331 (7517): 588 -- BMJ
"No serious research is being undertaken into the increased load on maternity services and neonatal units,13 the extra costs to employers of later maternity leave, or considerations of means that enable women to have children earlier."
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