GMC&#39;s revalidation plan is still too easy on medics, says report
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The General Medical Council failed in its primary task of looking after patients because it was too involved in protecting doctors, Dame Janet Smith concludes in her fifth report into the murderous career of serial killer Harold Shipman.
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TORONTO (CP) - A report from Cancer Care Ontario will help guide the province in its long-term goal to reduce treatment wait times, but there&#39;s still no quick fix, Health Minister George Smitherman said Thursday.
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that works to improve
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Head teachers and language experts say it is harder to get good grades in modern languages than other GCSEs.
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One of the nation&#39;s leading cardiovascular medical researchers has issued a call for less aggressive direct-to-consumer advertising and better safety assurances of medications in a special article posted online today by JAMA because of its relevance to
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Compared with other methods of managing diabetesâstrict diets, insulin injections, vigilant blood-sugar monitoringâRichard Surwit&#39;s technique seems too easy to be true.
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Reforms designed to reward NHS hospitals for efficiency have yet to yield significant improvements, a report says.
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WASHINGTON - Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that
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More disturbing than the fact that almost half of all enterprises haven't updated their disaster recovery/business continuity plan in the past year, only 41% have tested their plans in over the last 12 months. DR testing uncovers myriads of unforeseen problems.
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Five years after the release of a landmark report revealing the human toll that medical errors exact at US hospitals, Americans do not believe the nation&#39;s quality of health care has improved, a new survey finds.
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A faster, more streamlined system of assessing treatments for the NHS should be introduced, MPs say.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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Casualty departments are still failing to treat people quickly enough, according to the latest figures.
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Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization
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London, England, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Medical letters typed in India for doctors in England often contain hilarious typographical errors, but could lead to deadly mistakes, Sky News said Thursday.
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The General Medical Council is more concerned with &quot;looking after its own&quot; than the well being of patients according to the latest inquiry into serial killer Harold Shipman.
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