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Covid-19: Reduction in payments for NHS staff with long term symptoms is “short sighted”

UK should screen for tyrosinaemia in newborn babies, committee recommends

Patient safety: Access to critical patient information must improve, says report

NHS workforce plan for Wales: increase overseas recruitment and cut use of agency staff

Mental health: Ministers are accused of abandoning commitments after scrapping 10 year plan

Seven days in medicine: 25-31 January 2023

Exhibition marks the fight for women’s health rights

Covid-19: FDA removes US authorisation for antibody drug Evusheld

Covid-19: US will end public health emergency on 11 May, says Biden

Staff shortages are blamed for Norfolk hospital’s poor rating from regulator

Patients with sickle cell disease are let down by lack of coordinated NHS care, report finds

Clinicians should accurately record patients’ alcohol use, NICE advises

Coroners warn ministers that delays in attending to patients are leading to deaths

WHO: World is likely at an “inflexion point,” but covid remains public health emergency

Demand for abortions surges as contraception services shrink and cost of living rises

Consultants in England to be balloted on industrial action next month

NHS to fund extra beds and ambulances to tackle long emergency care waits

US congress committee calls for tougher action on trial sponsors who fail to meet reporting deadlines

Pensions: Government delays plan to allow doctors to “partly retire” to cut tax bills

Amazon launches cheap prescriptions for US Prime members

Ovarian cancer: Loyalty card data could help identify cases sooner

Nottingham trust is fined £800 000 for unsafe care of mother and baby

AbbVie and Eli Lilly leave UK pricing scheme over revenue repayments

Medical academic workforce is under threat without urgent action on pay and pensions, say peers

Maternity care: Entonox is withdrawn from some hospitals because of risk to staff from high exposure

Government has wasted £15bn on unused PPE and other pandemic purchases

Covid-19: JCVI recommends autumn vaccine booster for the most vulnerable

Black women in England are at greater risk of late cancer diagnosis than white women

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Seven days in medicine: 18-24 January 2023

Foundation doctors cancel locum shifts at London NHS trust over pay debacle

Government accused of complacency after rejecting MPs’ recommendations on menopause

NHS staff take battle for pay deal to the streets

Covid-19: Annual flu-like booster approach may not be appropriate, says expert on infectious disease

NHS in England will have one strategy for all major conditions, including cancer

Recent cash injections won’t solve emergency service problems, says leader

Recent cash injections won’t solve emergency service problems, says leader

Nephrologist who was unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing is awarded £219 000 compensation

Social care should be a universal entitlement on par with NHS, says Church of England commission

Patients treated at practices with high GP turnover have worse outcomes, finds study

Covid-19: Vaccination plus infection offers best protection, finds study led by WHO

Healthy eating is most expensive in Latin America and the Caribbean, finds UN

Childhood obesity: US paediatricians are told to use drugs and surgery if necessary

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Data privacy: GP surgery withdraws from kidney screening pilot after patients voice concerns

MPs question government’s failure to collect data on mesh and sodium valproate harms

NHS hospitals remain under severe pressure with 19 in 20 beds occupied

Covid-19: What do we know about XBB.1.5 and should we be worried?

Strengthen mental health bill to tackle “inexcusable” failures on racial inequality, says scrutiny committee

Doctors’ pay review body must be made “truly independent,” says BMA

Government should declare “national emergency” over NHS crisis, say peers

Seven days in medicine: 11-17 January 2023

“Epidemic levels of poverty” are harming young children, UK health visitors warn

Transgender care: Delays in accessing treatment are not unlawful, says High Court

Clinicians should withdraw antidepressants gradually, says NICE

Doctor who passed confidential PLAB questions to students is struck off

Training is in tatters as doctors prioritise urgent care and discharges

Doctors in Wales “can’t see end in sight” as urgent care only becomes norm

Doctors in England say workload is unsustainable, as pressure hits morale

New York City nurses end strike after securing better staffing and higher pay

Covid-19: Florida’s surgeon general used “careless” research practice in recommending against vaccination, his university finds

Pressures in Scotland: Dignity is a luxury and fatigue runs “bone deep”

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Desflurane: Use of carbon emitting anaesthetic to end in England

Children seeking asylum: Use imaging to check age, say UK government advisers

More patients are buying private hospital care amid record NHS waiting lists

Urgent action is needed to tackle malnutrition crisis in 30 million children, says WHO

Industrial action looms for junior doctors after BMA talks to government

GPs left in unsustainable position by “brutal” number of requests

Northern Irish medics speak out: “It feels like we’re going to war”

NICE recommends wider use of statins to cut cardiovascular risk

Profiteering, dysfunction, and bad healthcare win 2022 Shkreli awards

Seven days in medicine: 4-10 January 2023

Covid-19: Tory MP is suspended after comparing vaccines to holocaust

Former GP gets two more life sentences after second trial for sexual assaults against patients

England gets 900 new training posts—but will doctors stay?

Maternity care has deteriorated in past five years owing to staff availability, finds regulator

Alzheimer’s disease: FDA approves lecanemab amid cost and safety concerns

Strikes over pay go ahead as government tables “antistrike” bill

Funding to ease discharge delays is “too little, too late,” say health leaders

Type 1 diabetes: NICE recommends new “artificial pancreas” technology

England and Wales see rise in excess deaths amid flu surge

NHS pay: Government invites unions to talk about pay review body while announcing antistrike bill

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Abortion pills now available through US drug stores and by mail, even in states that ban abortion, FDA says

Junior doctors in England will walk out for 72 hours in March if ballot backs industrial action

NHS needs better data from digital apps to tackle health inequalities, says report

Prime minister cannot “wish away” NHS crisis, healthcare leaders warn

Hospitals discharge patients to privately staffed “care hotels” as they wait for social care

Children’s oral health is “national disgrace,” says head of royal college

Government must “get a grip” on NHS crisis to halt avoidable deaths, say leaders

Doctors are asked to help track variants among people arriving from China

Aduhelm: Approval of Alzheimer’s drug was highly unorthodox, finds report

Covid-19: China stops counting cases as models predict a million or more deaths

Ambulances face oxygen shortage as “twindemic” piles further pressure on NHS

Emergency contraceptive pills don’t induce abortion, says US regulator

Rivaroxaban: Lancet opens investigation into anticlotting drug trial after BMJ report

NHS pay: January strike dates are announced as government says demands are “unaffordable”

A third of junior doctors plan to leave NHS to work abroad in next 12 months

US public health services, research, and food security will benefit from government spending boost in 2023