NAPC News 13 August 2010
NAPC News
Works continues on conference arrangements for October, which is promising to be a hugely successful and exciting event. Book now to ensure you have a place, as booking is heavy.
Further inter-primary care meetings took place with other leading organisations and most of the Executive is preparing to go on holiday for their well deserved breaks.
Work has begun on dealing with the Department of Health consultation documents. If you have any views about which you feel strongly and would form a helpful part of a response to any of the consultation documents, please do let Maggie Marum here know at
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Your views are very important to us, and to the Department of Health, so please let us know your specific views in relation to specific questions raised in the consultation document.
There will be no news for the next two weeks.
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NAPC News 12 August 2010
Anger As NICE Denies Children Asthma Drug
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been berated for denying patients aged 6 to 11 access to Xolairon, a drug shown to benefit children suffering from severe asthma, on the NHS. NICE said that the high cost of the drug, £256 per vial, did not justify its ‘little extra benefit'.
Mike Thomas of Asthma UK said the news would be a massive blow to parents of children who had already trialed Xolair and had seen their lives transformed.
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NAPC News 11 August 2010
Hospitals Fear Downturn Will Hit Cancer Targets
According to alerts highlighted in annual plans submitted to Monitor, which regulates foundation trusts and which will publish its overview tomorrow, a quarter of the country's leading hospitals could miss key targets for cancer care or dealing with superbugs as financial pressures on the NHS mount. More than 20 foundations trusts say that they may be unable to meet performance standards for cancer services, such as the maximum 62 days expected between GP referral and treatment for cancer.
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NAPC News 10 August 2010
Births Reveal Ethnic Differences
In some parts of the UK, fewer than one in ten mothers giving birth is of whit British origin, according to official figures. The one in ten figure was based on births in North West London. Similar figures were found in other cities such as Birmingham and Bradford.
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NAPC News 9 August 2010
Working Time
The Department of Health has said it will take a robust approach to revising the European Working Time Directive as it applies to the NHS. The statement followed a Royal College of Surgeons survey of its members that found the majority said patient care had deteriorated since the directive, which limits doctors to 48 hours per week, came into force last year.
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