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GPs risk losses to foil private firms.
July 10, 2007... Derren Hayes GPs are going head-to-head against private companies in the battle to run new services in under-doctored areas, even though they risk longer hours and running at a loss. Despite concerns that GPs would be unwilling to take the financial risk of setting up practices from...

BMA leaders face a tough time at ARM.
June 26, 2007... conference BMA leaders look set for a rough ride from rank-and-file doctors at this week's Annual Representative Meeting, according to the results of a new survey. In a poll by Onmedica.net, the online information provider for health professionals, four out of five doctors of the 350...

Confusion over HPV jabs.
June 26, 2007... immunisation Adam Legge There is widespread confusion over who will carry out next year's human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) campaign in teenage girls. Last week the DoH agreed 'in principle' with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's (JCVI) recommendation that...

Duplex diagnosis first choice for PAD.
June 26, 2007... Imaging Duplex ultrasound is safe, cheap and accurate enough to diagnose most cases of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according to a Health Technology Assessment Programme review. The review compared the diagnostic accuracy of duplex ultrasound and the more complex and expensive...

GPs 'will be fined' for scrip failures.(Interview)
June 26, 2007... Prescribing Derren Hayes A PCT plans to 'fine' GP practices that fail to meet local prescribing targets in what doctors' leaders fear could be the start of a new cost-cutting drive. In what is thought to be the first example of such activity, East Riding of Yorkshire PCT wants...