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NHS Audit Commission Warns Possible Financial Collapse In Sussex And Surrey

Medical and surgical services provided by NHS could suffer a big blow if the financial condition in two counties (Surrey and Sussex) failed to improve, warned the Audit Commission.// The prevalence of a weak financial management, in addition to lack of proper response to problems addressed by district auditors have been accounted for the present condition. The financial deficit faced by...

Europe On High Bird Flu Alert: European Commission

Health officials in Europe have expressed the ‘high alert’ situation, following confirmation of three bird flu deaths in Turkey and hospital admission of several others// (26) believed to be afflicted with the disease. In addition, this situation has prompted fears of a human-human transmission. The health officials have undertaken strict monitoring of the bird flu spread from East...

Conflict over Productivity Commission report on physicians referral

The Productivity Commission of Australia has recommended a report which makes possible the patients to directly consult a Medicare funded consultation with out referral from the physician. // The Australian Divisions of General Practice (ADGP) has welcomed the report as they feel that the move will help to reduce the time for the patients in reaching a specialist and a consultation stra...

Control And Prevention Of Three Diseases To Be Discussed: European Commission

The investment of the European Commission would be targeted towards controlling the spread of three major diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria // that are haunting the Asian region. Furthermore, a 'Programme for Action to Confront HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB through External Action' would be launched neat year. The main focus of the programme would be aimed at reducing the finan...

Lung Disease Care Needs Urgent Improvement: Healthcare Commission

The UK government has promised to take steps to improve the care for patients suffering from chronic lung diseases following the criticism in a report//. The Healthcare Commission report said that there was an urgent need to improve diagnosis and care in the respiratory illness area. "The development of a new National Service Framework is an important step which will support the NHS...

Former FDA Commissioner Accused in Criminal Case

Lester Crawford, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has been subjected to a federal investigation following accusations of financial improprieties. // Attorney Barbara Van Gelder has mentioned that a grand jury had begun a criminal investigation of Lester Crawford. She is believed to have told a federal magistrate, in a telephone hearing, on Thursday, that she...

Chiefs Of Regional Commissions For Animal Health Announced

Dr. Robert Thwala, the Ministry of Agriculture Director of Veterinary and Livestock Services, was anointed as President of the African Regional Commission //for the International Committee of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Dr. Barry O’Neil was earlier elected the President of OIE. This post is held for three years. The elections were held last month during the 74th An...

European Commission Clears Diabetic Insulin for Pregnant Women

Healthcare major Novo Nordisk Friday said the European Commission (EC) had approved its rapid-acting insulin NovoRapid for use by pregnant women with diabetes.// According to a company statement here, the EC approval follows results of the random trials of modern insulin in pregnant women with type 1 diabetes. "NovoRapid is the first modern insulin that can be used in preg...

Health commission in a tight spot over delays in NHS complaints investigation

The BBC Radio 4 Today programme turned the spotlight on the healthcare commission, in charge of examining the complaints from patients about their experience with NHS//, which the commission has heavily fallen back on meeting the deadline. The Healthcare Commission has a huge pile of 3000 cases yet to investigated, which makes up almost 55% of the total number of complaints given to...

Tenure of Mental Health CommissionExtended

The Mental Health Commission has been extended to 2015. The commission had been assigned the task of promoting mental health //awareness as well as advocating for the needs of the mentally ill and was set to finish next year. In 1996 it was set up in response to the Mason Inquiry into Mental Health Services. They were helpful in developing a blueprint for improved services that...

Kalam to Commission India's First Tele-Radiology Network

Hyderabad: President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will Thursday commission India's first tele-radiology network aimed at providing radiology services in rural areas at minimum// cost. Under the network developed by a group of institutions, radiology experts will offer advice on images of patients sent from hospitals in rural and peripheral areas and provide instant consultation. K...

European Commission to Boost Chhattisgarh's Health Sector

Raipur: The European Commission is to assist Chhattisgarh in revamping its primary health sector with an aid of Rs.1.5 billion// (more than $33 million) over the next three years. "The European Commission has agreed to provide the Chhattisgarh government Rs.1.5 billion for toning up the primary health sector in Raipur, Mahasamund, Rajnandgaon, Janjgir-Champa, Bilaspur and Kawardha dis...

EU Commission to Set Up Rapid Action Team

The European Commission of the EU has come out with a plan to construct an expert team of professionals from various disciplines//, meant to deal with sudden and dangerous outbreaks of animal diseases. The decision has come in the wake of various outbreaks, such as the recent bird flu outbreak, previous foot and mouth disease of cattle, blue tongue disease etc. The commissio...

Texas Youth Commission Reeling Under Multiple Charges

The Texas Youth Commission’s (TYC) facilities continue to reel under allegations of ward neglect and abuse, after the Dallas Morning News unearthed sordid// details about the agency. Leaders of the state continue the investigations of sexual and physical abuse of the juvenile inmates, as well as gross neglect of their health. Reports have shown that the inmates have had to wai...

Presidential Commission Wants Proper Care of Wounded Soldiers at Their Homes

The US presidential commission investigating the plight of the soldiers wounded in the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan has focused on efforts to enable the GIs receive proper treatment in their own homes . During its seventh and last hearing Friday, the Commission admitted todays veterans are more likely than those of previous conflicts to suffer from polytrauma, including bu...

National Commission for Women to Investigate Unearthing of Female Fetuses in Pataudi

A three member-team of the National Commission for Women (NCW) led by Malini Bhattacharya will visit Pataudi in Haryana later today to investigate the unearthing of a large number of female fetuses . The team will meet local authorities to get first hand information of the case and the investigation conducted so far. The NCW spokesperson told reporters that they felt t...

European Commission Seeks To Dispel The Darkness Out Of Sunscreens

According to the European Commission, there is no such thing as a safe suntan. The Commission plans to ban the words sun block and 100 per cent sun protection from bottles of sun cream. According to the Commission, requiring sunscreen labels to conform to a common standard of information would end consumer confusion and help to reduce skin cancer, which incidentally, kills up to 1,800...

Doctors Not Exempt from Competition Law, Australian Commission Warns

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned doctors against operating closed shops and told them firmly they are not above the competition law .The Commissionss chairman Graeme Samuel last week brushed aside as untenable the claims that patient care somehow overrode other laws. He also called upon the Australian Medical Association to change the "culture that...