The Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost $30 billion in 2006, a 30% decrease from a previous estimate of $43 billion, according to CMS, the
In a response to the Education and Skills Committee inquiry the BMA highlights concerns about the current situation in medical education and voices opposition to the cap on student fees being lifted.
Medicare on Jan. 1 began to cover ultrasounds to detect abdominal aortic aneurysms in beneficiaries at high risk for the condition, the
The Wall Street Journal on Friday examined how young people often serve as caregivers for parents with disabilities and chronic illnesses. According to the Journal, the number of young people caring for parents with debilitating conditions -- s
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan on Tuesday announced that it is working with California insurance regulators to develop new guidelines for canceling individ
The Wall Street Journal on Monday examined how many brain injury patients who experience subsequent problems with memory, mental processing or behavior often do not receive cognitive rehabilitation because their health insurers do not cover the treatme
Hospital death rates can be reduced by employing more Registered Nurses and the routine use of care maps or protocols, according to a study in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursi
As the NHS prepares for its last year of significant injections of extra money, the Chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) Mr James Johnson, has called on the government to get its act togeth
In its hard-hitting report, Gambling addiction and its treatment within the NHS, the BMA is calling for gambling to be a recognised addiction that requires treatment on
Referral management schemes pose a serious threat to patients' interests, argues Peter Lapsley, Chief Executive of the Skin Care Campaign, in this week's British Medical Journal.Referral management
Two-thirds of doctors polled by BMA News said they thought doctors would retire earlier than they had planned - the opposite effect intended by the government when it proposed that the pension age be raised to 65.
The reason given by many doctors is that the oldest and most experienced staff would want to get out of the health service before the changes come into effect for all staff in 2013.
One doctor told BMA News: 'A large proportion of consultants who are due to [retire] between 2013 and 2018 will look carefully at the figures, and a significant number of those will go earlier than expected. The consequences for medicine of a sudden exodus of experienced elders, given all the concerns about current training, are worrying.'
Doctors denounced the proposed changes as 'disgraceful and short-sighted', with more than three quarters opposed to the proposals to raise the pension age and for the final salary pension scheme to be scrapped in favour of one based on 'career average revalued earnings'.
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