Hospitals fail to match GPs' cost-effective prescribing
Hospital doctors are failing to match GPs' efforts to contain prescribing costs, with drug spends in...
DoH could hand pharmacists power to alter GP scrips unilaterally
Plans to allow pharmacists to change prescriptions without consulting prescribers could blur clinica...
National review launched into GP role in end-of-life care
End-of-life care run by GPs will be reviewed for the first time as part of a survey that will feed i...
Diabetes screening overhaul could cut GP workload
Using HbA1c to screen for diabetes in pharmacies could identify undiagnosed cases without generating...
GP efforts improve diabetes detection as prevalence soars
GPs efforts have helped detect 50,000 additional cases of diabetes in 2010/11, figures suggest, as t...
QOF scores climb in England
QOF earnings in England rose 1% in 2010/11, according to figures published on Wednesday....
Breast screening controversy triggers review by cancer czar
The NHS breast screening programme will be formally reviewed by an independent panel following doubt...
Test acute coronary syndrome patients for diabetes, says NICE
GPs should test annually for diabetes in all patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and raised...
Smoking is 'almost completely absent' from death certificates
The 'almost complete absence' of references to smoking on UK death certificates means important heal...
Effective treatments can be found by sifting billions of drug combinations
Evolutionary principles can be used to sift through billions of possible drug combinations to identi...
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