Doctor articles from August 2006

Doctor archives from August 2006

'Add allergy alerts to e-records'.
August 22, 2006... Prescribing Practices should check that their computer system flags up potential allergies to prescription medicines, an LMC has warned. Devon LMC said it was aware of a situation where a record of penicillin sensitivity was not...

GPs to get help over home oxygen fiasco.
August 22, 2006... Respiratory Adam Legge GPs ARE to receive guidance to help them counter continuing problems with the home oxygen delivery service - six months after changes to the system were introduced. The British Thoracic Society's oxygen...

Legal threat to GPs in transport row.(Brief article)
August 22, 2006... Enhanced services PCTs in Essex have threatened to take practices to court if they go ahead with plans to stop booking non-urgent patient transport. The trusts claim GPs will be breaking a pan-Essex agreement covering enhanced...

Antibiotics ruled out in most UTIs.
August 22, 2006... Prescribing GPs should not prescribe antibiotics for urinary tract infections unless patients have symptoms or are pregnant, says latest clinical guidance. The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) says patients in...

Further doubt cast on BMI accuracy.
August 22, 2006... Cardiology Overweight patients with established coronary heart disease often have a better survival rate and fewer cardiovascular events than those with a normal BMI, suggest US findings. The research follows debate over whether waist...

GPs blow whistle on walk-in centre.
August 22, 2006... Investigation launched into safety at private-run NHS clinic exclusive Cathy Comerford and Amena Saleem A GP has resigned from his job at a walk-in centre run by a private company over his concerns about patient safety because of the...

Hot and bothered and closed for the day.(climate changes)(Brief article)
August 22, 2006... Premises Tempers finally boiled over at a Birmingham practice during the recent heatwave, following years of waiting for renovation work. Staff at the PCT-owned health centre in Farm Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, called a day of action...

Private bowel tests spell work for GPs.
August 22, 2006... Screening Markus MacGill GPs MAY have to deal with a flood of patients worried they might have bowel cancer, following the launch of a private cancer screening initiative. Point of Care Laboratories is offering faecal occult blood...