NAPC News 15 September 2010
Patients Denied New Cancer Treatments
Research by the Royal College of Radiologists has found only a quarter of patients surveyed were receiving high dose targeted treatments for cancerous tumours. It found many treatment centres had machine that could deliver the latest treatments but were using them to give radiotherapy that is considered old fashioned. The study, published in the journal of Clinical Oncology, examined 58 NHS centres providing 89 per cent of England's radiation treatment for cancer.
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NAPC News 13 September 2010
Trainee Surgeons Should Get Experience At Camp Bastion
Trainee surgeons could be offered placements working with the British military at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, under plans being developed by doctors' leaders to boost experience of trauma operations.
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Warning Over Scale Of Task of Replacing PCTs
National Association of Primary Care (NAPC)
Press Release
Following the publication of an article in today's edition of the Health Service Journal (HSJ) entitled: ‘Warning Over Scale Of Task of Replacing PCTs', Dr Tim Richardson, an Executive member of NAPC, and a leading GP in an integrated care project, commented: ‘The real issue is what benefit do the 300 PCT functions add to patient care or value to the taxpayer. I suspect that many of those function related to a multitude of new targets from the previous government, and also some good ideas that government had'. ‘However', he continued, ‘I doubt that they led to better or more convenient care.'
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NAPC News 9 September 2010
Lansley Challenged On Health Shake-Up
Stephen Dorrell, the Conservative former health minister, who chairs the Commons Health Committee, said that Andrew Lansley needed to show how GP commissioning would improve health service care.
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NAPC News 10 September 2010
NAPC News
This week saw the completion of a joint project, which in a couple of weeks, will be made available to NAPC members. Watch this space.
Meetings also took place with a range of organisations - most of whom have a strong interest in GP Commissioning.
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