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Healthcare Freakonomics

For some strange reason the healthcare sector manages to escape the sort of forensic analysis others are subjected to. There’s this strange coalition of patient confidentiality, ethics, professional integrity and public policy. These combine to create this “opaque soup” of information which nobody understands and even fewer believe. In the UK we get bombarded by [...]

Spending Cuts will make NHS better says Health Secretary

Sturgeon: cuts will make NHS better January 24, 2010 by Jennifer Trueland · 2 Comments In the first of a series of interviews with people who have an impact on health and health services in Scotland, Jennifer Trueland talks booze, tears and quality of care with health secretary Nicola Sturgeon. Cuts will make health boards [...]

The public sector starts at No 1 Easy Street

For years Karen Moffat toiled away in the canteen of her local supermarket, before realising she could earn more, work fewer hours and be less stressed by taking a job in the public sector. The mother of two is one of more than 900,000 workers to have signed up for a life working for the [...]

Remote Patient Monitoring Could Save £ billions

The scope of a new global healthcare market worth billions of pounds is being tested by Philips, the electronics group, in the UK with the world’s biggest trial of distance monitoring of chronically ill patients in their homes. The Dutch company is hoping to prove to the NHS that it can stem the mounting financial [...]

NICE Programme for Medical Devices

This sounds great news for us. The type of research we’re doing is beyond the state of the science and post research adoption is bound to be an issue. But with a NICE programme to talk to we can expect a fast track – we hope. Reprint of a NICE Press Release The National Institute [...]

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Action call over diagnosis errors

Hundreds of thousands of people could be misdiagnosed by doctors in Scotland every year, a BBC Scotland investigation has revealed. Medics could be getting it wrong in as many as 15% of patient consultations in hospital and primary care. But cases of misdiagnosis, which do not all result in harm to the patient, are not [...]