Topic: Health Care Policy
Nurses attending the Royal College of Nursing conference on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion saying they have "no confidence" in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's steering of NHS reforms.Some 96 percent of the 497 delegates at the RCN conference in ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Nurses overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's handling of health reforms on Wednesday, warning budget cuts could have "catastrophic" consequences for patient care.At their annual conference, members of the powerful Royal College of ...
Frontline job cuts in the NHS will have "catastrophic consequences" for patient safety and care, with nurses accounting for almost half of all positions to be axed, a nursing union warned on Monday.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) looked at 21 NHS ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bowing to pressure from business groups worried about an avalanche of paperwork, the Senate voted on Tuesday to rescind a tax-reporting requirement included in last year's healthcare overhaul law.With bipartisan support, the Senate voted 87-12 to pass legislation sponsored ...
Labour leader Ed Miliband on Monday slammed the government's plans to reform the NHS in England, saying the policy had descended into "utter confusion and chaos".The Health and Social Care Bill, which would place GPs in control of commissioning most health services, ...
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines, where an average of 11 women a day die giving birth, could lower its high maternal death rate by having a reproductive health policy, a visiting United Nations delegation said on Friday."The absence of a national reproductive ...
WASHINGTON - Nevada has joined 20 states to have the new federal health care law declared unconstitutional. At the same time, Gov. Brian Sandoval has ordered the state to begin implementing it because at this point, it's the law of the land.Now, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chris Molendorp, a Missouri state legislator, actively opposed the federal healthcare plan, even supporting a ballot measure rebuking the massive changes to the U.S. health industry.Recently, however, he has had a slight change of heart."I didn't want the federal ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars were nabbed in Colombia and returned to the United States, authorities said on Tuesday.Caridad Guilarte, 54, and Clara Guilarte, 56, ran a ...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Two sisters accused of falsifying health care claims to defraud the government of millions of dollars were nabbed in Colombia and returned to the United States, authorities said on Tuesday.Caridad Guilarte, 54, and Clara Guilarte, 56, ran a clinic ...
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