Posted by: DrugsNews on: 14 Mar, 2010
Public Engagement Grants 2010 – Applications Open – British Psychological Society
Applications are open for the British Psychological Society’s Public Engagement Grants 2010. The Society has £14k to award to its members working on projects that help people or contribute to everyday life, and raise awareness of psychology and psychology research. This is the seventh year of the scheme. Past successful awards include £5k in 2008 to Dr Sarah Davidson who works with the British Red Cross to promote the CALMER psycho-social framework…
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New Report Published On Social Care, England
A cross-party group of MPs published a report on social care today which criticised the ‘party political squabbling and point-scoring’ and called for a fundamental reform of the social care system in England to be an immediate priority for the Government. The MS Society was one of only a handful of organisations who gave evidence to the cross-party group in November and today joined a large number disability and carers organisations in welcoming this latest report…
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Posted by: DrugsNews on: 14 Mar, 2010
Army Of New Care Advisors Joins The Fight Against Muscle Disease, UK
An army of 19 new and newly secured care advisors will be joining the fight against muscle disease across the UK with the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. Thanks to the hard work of campaigning patients in 10 UK regions and the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, babies, children and adults living with muscle disease will now have access to 19 regional care advisors, who provide vital care co-ordination, advice and guidance on services, equipment and funding. They are also an important point of contact for families to answer their questions about these rare and devastating conditions…
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Nurses Back Call For MPs To Work Together To Reform Social Care
Welcoming the publication of the Health Select Committee report on Social Care, Janet Davies, Executive Director of Nursing and Service Delivery at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said: “Nurses have told us that they would prefer a comprehensive model of funding – the only option where everybody would pay collectively for social care, sharing the risk equally and fairly. We also echo the Committee’s call for further debate on funding care from taxation…
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AVMA, Veterinary Foundation Tackle Veterinary Shortage With New Incentive Program
Their numbers are dwindling at such a rate that our food supply may be in jeopardy – and that decline may continue as their educational debt continues to rise. These are just two of the challenges facing food animal veterinary medicine, one of the bulwarks of our food safety system…
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Salaried Dentists Echo Disappointment Of GDPs At Pay Award – British Dental Association
Leaders of dentists working in salaried primary care, hospitals and academia have echoed the disappointment already expressed by colleagues in general practice at the pay award announced for 2010/11. Salaried primary care dentists in England will be given just a one per cent pay increase for next year. Peter Bateman, Chair of the British Dental Association’s Salaried Dentists Committee, said: “Salaried primary care dental services treat some of the most vulnerable patients in the community. Two thirds of services already face significant difficulties filling vacancies…
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Pilots Require Time And Evaluation, Says BDA
The British Dental Association (BDA) has reaffirmed its support for the piloting of the reforms in Professor Steele’s review of dentistry, following today’s announcement that at least 30 dental practices have been selected to trial new ways of improving services for patients. The pilots, which are expected to take place over a two-year period, will include the trial of a blended contract which is intended to reward dentists for the number of patients they see, the level of each treatment each patients receives and the quality of the care that is provided…
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FDA Task Force Seeks Public Comments On Increasing Transparency With Regulated Industry
As part of the final phase of its transparency initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking comment from the public and other interested stakeholders on how the agency can increase transparency in its interactions with regulated industry. Posted in the March 12, 2010, Federal Register, the request for electronic or written comments has a deadline of April 12, 2010. The FDA regulates products responsible for about 25 percent of the gross national product of the United States and the industries responsible for these products…
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Medtronic Starts International Study Of CoreValve(R) Transcatheter Aortic Valve System
Moving to expand the evidence base for the future of structural heart disease therapy, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced the start of the first of several new initiatives in a robust international clinical program for its CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve system, a minimally-invasive alternative to open-heart surgery for aortic valve replacement. The CoreValve Advance clinical study began enrolling patients last week, with the first two implants occurring in Germany…
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Some Older ER Patients Are Getting The Wrong Medicines
A University of Michigan study recently published in Academic Emergency Medicine says that it is common for patients 65 and older to receive potentially inappropriate medications when treated in an emergency room. Nearly 19.5 million older patients, or 16.8 percent of eligible emergency visits from 2000-2006, received one or more potentially inappropriate medications – or PIMs. The large sample of approximately 470,000 ED and outpatient clinic visits, corresponding to a national estimate of about 1…
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