Archive for the ‘Public Health’ Category
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers and senior managers that they must control the risks of working at height in the workplace. The warning follows the prosecution of the manager of a construction company after an incident led to an employee at a site in Mansfield suffering ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) launched two datasets that can be easily used to make more comprehensive comparisons between different areas of the island. The two datasets are called The All-Ireland Health and Social Care Indicator Set and Irish Health Poverty Index. They consist of 60 health-related ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
An urgent plea to both sides in the Georgian conflict to respect the professional independence of physicians has been made by the World Medical Association. In an emergency statement, the WMA reiterated its policy on armed conflict that physicians must be granted access to patients, medical facilities and equipment and ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Drug makers increased the average wholesale price of 26 brand-name drugs by 100% or more in a single cost adjustment last year, compared with comparable price increases for 15 drugs in 2004, according to University of Minnesota researchers, USA Today reports. In the first half of 2008, the average wholesale ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
A coalition of veterans' groups called Stand Up For Veterans is lobbying for Congress to prepare the Department of Veterans Affairs budget one year in advance to give the agency a "more predictable funding stream" and improve health care for veterans, the Christian Science Monitor reports. According to the Monitor, ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to assess the risks to their employees from exposure to vibration, after a Hampshire company was fined ￡10,500 for ignoring the safety of a worker. Tews Engineering Limited, based in Petersfield, Hampshire, pleaded guilty to contravening Section 2(1) of the Health ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Irish Medicines Formulary (IMF), Edition 4, has now been published and distributed to registered GPs in fulltime practice in Ireland. Since it was first published in February 2007, IMF continues to grow to meet the needs of Irish healthcare professionals. A major innovation in Edition 4 is the inclusion ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) announced a program to provide loans to members suffering the negative economic effects of the 10% Medi-Cal cut in payments to physicians that took effect July 1. "We are providing a lifeline to family physicians who otherwise may be forced to turn away ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney TD welcomed the report of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance entitled "Building a culture of patient safety". The Minster said "This is the first report of its kind and it makes far reaching recommendations which when implemented will impact ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a stark warning about managing the risks from asbestos, following its prosecution of a two companies in Essex, after workers in their employment were exposed to asbestos containing materials. R Maskell Ltd of Loughton, Essex was fined ￡150,000 with costs of ￡30,000 ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Australian accreditation and registration system for international medical graduates is critically ill and the country needs to create a better system to support overseas health professionals or it will continue to face doctor shortages, according to an academic from The Australian National University. Dr Sue Douglas, ANU Senior Lecturer ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
The number of emergency department visits in the U.S. increased by 36% to 119 million in 2007 from 90 million in 1996, according to a CDC report on hospital use released on Wednesday, the AP/Miami Herald reports (Stobbe, AP/Miami Herald, 8/6). At the same time, the number of EDs nationwide ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
A group of leading health figures will advise the Department of Health on how to most effectively engage people in the consultation process for the NHS Constitution, Health Minister and Joint Chair Ivan Lewis announced recently. The Constitutional Advisory Forum (CAF), ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
The new leadership team to take forward the Government's flagship health IT programme was announced by the Department of Health. Christine Connelly will be the first Chief Information Officer for Health and will focus on developing and delivering the Department's ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined how patients "who need immediate care for injuries and illness ... are increasingly turning to walk-in urgent care clinics." According to the Journal, such clinics -- which require no appointment and offer extended weekend and evening hours -- "fill the gap" between the ...
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