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Associate Parliamentary Health Group

Daily media bulletin

Tuesday 24 January 2012

By Theme

 

Health Select Committee publishes report on NHS efficiency savings

NHS reforms 'hindering drive to make savings' BBC

Health committee: NHS is 'salami slicing' and could miss savings target HSJ

NHS shake-up hindering cuts to spending, says report The Independent

 

By Publication

 

BBC

Mind-altering drugs research call

Stem cell eye remedy 'seems safe'

Objections to right-to-die plea

 

BMJ

UK launches new initiative against neglected tropical diseases

A second NHS trust turns to the army for help with staffing

Bird flu research is put on hold for 60 days

 

The Daily Mail

This will hurt... women feel more pain than men

Some children may 'grow out' of autism, suggests study

A life of brain-teasing could beat Alzheimer's disease with reading, writing and puzzles

Ditch multi-vitamins. Stand up more. Wear better shoes... Can these simple habits stop you getting cancer?

 

The Guardian

Organ donor rates climbing too slowly, warns charity

 

HSJ

Government announces £5.2bn public health spend

CCG budget allocations delayed until February

 

The Independent

Doctors and nurses seek royal medical colleges' support to fight NHS reforms

Councils told to stub out big tobacco pension deals

 

The Mirror

Computer games fans less likely to develop Alzheimer's

Rheumatoid arthritis leaves one in three feeling depressed and lonely

Beginning of menopause can be predicted after genes breakthrough

 

The Nursing Times

NHS will use care home stories from public to inform practice

Worry grows as second senior nurse leaves NMC

Voluntary HCA plan could lead to 'formal regulation', says Mid Staffs group

Drug rounds must be protected in care homes to cut high error rates

Nurses to pay more than £7,600 towards pensions, figures suggest

 

Pulse

GPs could be barred from taking leave around Christmas

Clinical competence checks for EU-trained doctors 'not against rules'

Practice governance procedures to be included in GP revalidation

BMA launches CCG constitution guidance

 

The Telegraph

Elderly in crisis as councils cut care home funding

Women 'feel pain more than men'

First trial of human stem cell therapy in blind patients works

Puzzle habit 'staves off dementia'

Breast cancer screening 'can no longer be justified'

 

The Times

Patients face new negligence risk

Care home resident’s bed sore was down to the bone

Care crisis facing the elderly: MPs