Pharmacist News

DoH to change GP contract to cut correction factors

The DoH will change the contract to allow correction factors to be cut legally, the GPC announced yesterday. Read more

NICE to redesign quality framework, Darzi tells MPs

NICE will redesign the quality framework around cost effective disease areas that have the greatest impact on health, health minister Lord Darzi has told MPs. Read more

Bradshaw blames Daily Mail for 'vilifying' GPs

Health minister Ben Bradshaw has blamed the Daily Mail for GP unhappiness rather than accepting any responsibility himself. Read more

GPC negotiator announces gender change and is not re-elected

GPC negotiator Dr Stewart Drage has revealed he has become a woman. Read more

DoH criticised over HPV jab choice

The DoH could save almost £20 million a year by deciding to use the HPV vaccine Cervarix over its more expensive rival Gardasil, UK research suggests. Read more

Call for hospitals to share information on knife crime

Every hospital emergency department in England should share information about violent incidents with local crime reduction agencies in a bid to tackle knife crime, according to an editorial in the BMJ today. Read more

Capita is preferred bidder to run NHS Choices website

Capita, the UK's leading outsourcing company, is the DoH's preferred bidder for the NHS Choices contract for the next three years. Read more

Unions call for NMC to appoint chief executive externally

Nursing unions have called for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to appoint an external candidate as chief executive and to consult on an action plan to tackle serious failures highlighted last month by an NHS watchdog. Read more

Councils 'not ready to meet the challenge of an ageing population'

Councils in England with the fastest ageing populations are not ready to meet the challenges, according to an Audit Commission report today. Read more