NHS Bolton Library Presents… Primary Care news, opinion & research for the week ending 18th September 2011

Please find below a selection of the most relevant and interesting news stories of the past week. Including:

• Where is public health leadership in England?
• GMC says more support needed for overseas doctors in UK
• DH paid £8m to exit private contract following suspension of services
• Fall assessment in older people
• Manchester asks its residents if they are feeling blue
• Genital warts and cost of care in England
• British public is sceptical about minimum price on alcohol
• How children die: classifying child deaths
• Health care for immigrants in Europe: is there still consensus among country experts about principles of good practice ? A Delphi study
• Does Spongebob SquarePants wreck children’s ability to concentrate?

Sexual health? Public health!

Source Sexual health? Public health! — Radcliffe 87 (6): 456 — Sexually Transmitted Infections.

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Reforms in the National Health Service (NHS) in England have given those of us working in the national network of genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics reason to reflect on their role. The conclusion that the UK national specialty society…

Health and Wellbeing Boards ‘should drive integration’

Source: Health and Wellbeing Boards ‘should drive integration’ | News | Health Service Journal.

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Health and wellbeing boards should include the integration of commissioning in their “key success criteria”, according to a new guide published by the Good Governance Institute.

Manchester cancer waits see little improvement since tsars report

Source: Manchester cancer waits see little improvement since tsars report | HSJ Local | Health Service Journal.

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A report for Greater Manchester commissioners has found “little sustained improvement” in the area’s poor cancer waiting times, despite the intervention in February of the government’s cancer tsar.

BMJ Letters – Week Commencing 12th September

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• Cycling in urban environments More needs to be done
• Cycling in urban environments Benefits of public bicycle schemes must be evaluated carefully
• NICE on disinvestment NICE recommendations for disinvestment
• We shouldn’t fear social media A few fears felt using Facebook
• Global non-communicable disease Where did all the other non-communicable diseases go?
• Doctors and torture in Israel Why the secrecy?
• Doctors and torture in Israel BMA’s reply to Burns-Cox
• Calorie labelling on high street Serious methodological flaws compromise study findings
• Deaths at UK immigration centres Immigration centre healthcare should be transferred to Department of Health
• MMR vaccination and egg allergy Refer children with a previous serious reaction to an expert
• MMR vaccination and egg allergy Vaccination of people with suspected egg allergy is safe and feasible
• MMR vaccination and egg allergy Authors’ reply to Elliman and Bedford and Duncan and colleagues
• Calorie labelling on high street Authors’ reply to Pande and Soumerai

Where is public health leadership in England?

Source:Offline: Where is public health leadership in England? : The Lancet.

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Sample: On Aug 26, 2011, a public health registrar wrote this message to fellow trainees on a pubic health Yahoo group: “the situation is terrible and unless something gives, I honestly think we’ll see the winding up of our specialty as we know it…we’re being wiped out.” Another wrote: “Why are we not setting the agenda, lobbying for what we see as (evidence-based) public health policy in England, setting our vision for an evidence-based system that will be the best opportunity to improve the health of …

 

Whole government approach is needed to improve health across Europe, says WHO

Source: Whole government approach is needed to improve health across Europe, says WHO — Dinsdale 343 — bmj.com.

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A major shift in the way public health is managed across Europe will be needed in future if all countries are to achieve the best health standards for their citizens, says the World Health Organization.

 

MPs call for improvement on cost, duplication, and delays in ambulance services

Source: MPs call for improvement on cost, duplication, and delays in ambulance services — O’Dowd 343 — bmj.com.

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England’s ambulance service inefficiencies should be tackled to ensure patients are not kept waiting outside emergency departments and costs are evened out across the country, say MPs.

 

Rise in patients waiting for treatment

Source:Rise in patients waiting for treatment | News | Health Service Journal.

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The number of patients forced to wait more than 18 weeks for NHS treatment has risen slightly, according to new figures.

 

Peers take aim at Health Social Care Bill

Source:Peers take aim at Health Social Care Bill | News | Health Service Journal.

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Peers have fired an early warning shot across the government’s bows over controversial health care reforms.

 

Health bill risks disrupting care for offenders leaving prison, warns peer

Source: Health bill risks disrupting care for offenders leaving prison, warns peer — Limb 343 — bmj.com.

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A Labour peer who led an independent review of prison drugs treatment has warned that the coalition government’s commissioning reforms could harm the healthcare of offenders.

 

BMA steps up opposition to Health Bill’s quality premium and data plans

The British Medical Association’s GP Committee has reiterated its opposition to two reforms set out in the Health and Social Care Bill, including the quality premium which it has denounced as “ethically dubious” and “utterly immoral”.

Source: BMA steps up opposition to Health Bill’s quality premium and data plans | News | Health Service Journal.

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Glowing bandages could identify infections

Source: Glowing bandages could identify infections – Health News – NHS Choices.

NHS Choices examines the science behind the newspaper headlines.

Links to the headlines

Glowing bandage to treat infection. The Guardian, September 16 2011

Gel lights up when it finds infections in wounds. The Mirror, September 16 2011