Having recharged my professional batteries
spending one day at the wonderful RCN PN Conference and Exhibition last
week, I, like most people, left Plymouth believing I could change the
world. Now I’m just drowning in influenza A/H1N1v emails and phone...
02 Jul 2009 10:07
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Sister BroigusOh Gordon. Please no. Yesterday’s big
announcement of the government’s shift away from micro-managed
centrally set targets PCTs were invented for, looks like more ludicrous
‘choices’ for patients. The right to die at home for example is a
fantastic idea...
30 Jun 2009 9:56
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Liam Stephens
Coverage from the BMA ARM 2009 in Liverpool
Tuesday, 9.50am Last night, by the way, the ARM debated the vexed
issues of regulation and revalidation. On the latter there's a fair
amount of consensus - it's okay in theory, but there's a lingering
suspicion the government will spectactularly... 30 Jun 2009 12:37
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jonn elledge
Live coverage from the 2009 conference of LMCs15.10
Slightly earlier, there was another equally fraught debate about
funding. Greenwich's Dr Cornelia McCarthy complained that the current
formula doesn't take account of ethnicity, or deprivation, or high
patient turnover. The result is that...
12 Jun 2009 15:29
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jonn elledge