Seven days in medicine: 21-27 February 2018
BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k933 (Published 01 March 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;360:k933
Primary care
Scrap referral management centres, says RCGP
The NHS should stop using referral management centres that “prioritise cost savings over patient care,” the Royal College of General Practitioners urged. Its report said that centres primarily designed to reduce GPs’ total referral numbers to hospital should not be introduced. It cited a “dearth of evidence” that they are cost effective, in line with an investigation by The BMJ in 2017.1 It said that existing centres must be able to demonstrate that they are safe for patients and cost effective for the whole NHS.
Public health
Restaurant labels could cut calorie consumption
Adding nutritional labelling to menus may reduce the calories people consume, evidence published in the Cochrane Library showed.2 A systematic review of several studies to have looked at the impact of nutritional labels on food and non-alcoholic drinks found that adding calorie labels to menus and next to food in restaurants, coffee shops, and cafes can have an effect. But it said that the evidence quality was low and that other measures were needed.
Millennials are most obese generation
People born from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s are set to be the most overweight generation since records began, Cancer Research UK found. It estimated that more than seven in 10 “millennials” will be overweight or …
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