In a new report out this week the BMA is highlighting how evidence-based prescribing protects patients? health. Evidence-based prescribing is underpinned by careful decision making based on current best evidence for the healthcare of individual patients.
In his response to the PAC?s1 report on PFI2debt refinancing, Chairman of the BMA?s Consultants? Committee, Dr Jonathan Fielden, said:
Over the last year the NHS has continued to deliver the fastest ever access to A&E treatment, figures released from the UK Department of Health show.
Responding to the Healthcare Commission?s survey of patients? experiences, Chairman of the BMA?s Consultants? Committee, Dr Jonathan Fielden, said:
Responding to the National Audit Office?s report on efficient prescribing Dr Brian Dunn, from the BMA?s General Practitioners Committee (GPC) clinical and prescribing subcommittee said:
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is hosting a major policy conference, Nursing Care in Life, Death and Disaster on June 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia where experts in nursing, medicine, public health and disaster preparedness will discuss issues related to the standards of care provided during a major disaster.
UT Southwestern Medical Center has joined a national clinical trial to identify the long-term health effects of West Nile virus infection and to learn more about the disease’s progression, symptoms and mortality.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major and increasing global health epidemic that has received insufficient attention from the health-care profession, governments, and the pharmaceutical industry, argues Professor Peter Barnes, one of the world’s leading experts on lung disease.
Spending on prescribed drugs in Canada is estimated to have reached $21.1 billion in 2006, an increase of $1.4 billion over the previous year, according to figures released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in its annual report on drug spending.
Women who receive aspirin during pregnancy are at lower risk of pre-eclampsia a pregnancy complication, revealed by researchers from Australia and the UK.