A new MRSA objective will focus progress on Trusts that need to improve the most, Health Minister Ann Keen announced yesterday.
From April 2010, the MRSA objective will be applied to all NHS organisations to ensure patients receive clean safe care across the whole NHS.

New core standards for Assistant Practitioners are published today by Skills for Health, the Sector Skills Council for healthcare.
The standards were developed in response to requests from employers and commissioners concerned at variation in the responsibilities, education and training of staff employed in the role.

There are now fifteen times more people having keyhole surgery for bowel cancer than there were ten years ago, according to research presented at the NCRI Cancer Conference in Birmingham today (Monday).

A new report by Dyckman & Associates prepared for America’s Health Insurance Plans shows that some physicians who choose not to participate in health insurance networks are charging patients fees that are several hundred – and in some cases, a thousand percent – higher than Medicare reimbursement for the same service in the same geographic [...]

The number of people killed at work in Britain has fallen to a record low, new figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal.
Provisional data shows that 180 workers were killed between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009 – a rate of 0.6 per 100,000 employees – down from 233 in 2007/08 and [...]