Responding to Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham’s publication of NHS 2010-2015: from good to great: Preventative, people-centred, productive, The King’s Fund Director of Policy Dr Anna Dixon said:

An independent NHS London report published today (Tuesday 8 December, 2009) has found that consultants’ concerns about workload and poor communication in paediatric services in Haringey “were genuinely and reasonably held.” It concludes that these issues “could have been managed more effectively in the interests of patient care.”

The Federal Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF), Ged Kearney, has been nominated as a candidate to run for the head of the country’s peak union body, the ACTU, it was announced today.

A study based on a contemporary registry of patients with myocardial infarction (heart attack) indicates that even though hospitals that perform a higher number of angioplasties are more likely to follow evidence-based guidelines and have shorter times to the angioplasty procedure, there appears to be no significant difference in outcomes such as length of hospital [...]

People with dementia – who occupy a quarter of all hospital beds – are staying far longer in hospital than people without the condition who go in for the same treatment at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds to the NHS, an Alzheimer’s Society report found today (Tuesday, 17 November 2009). Based on [...]