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U.K. $1 billion medical research center gets go-ahead

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Dec 6 - The government has backed plans to build a 500-million-pound medical research center in London to bring together the country's best scientists. It has agreed to sell land in central London to a consortium planning the new U.K. Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.

December 5, 2007

Britain bans doctors' coats to battle superbug

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters Life!), Sep 18 - Long-sleeved white coats, favored by physicians for decades, are set to be banned under a shake-up of Britain's state-run National Health Service (NHS) aimed at tackling hospital superbugs. Under a "bare below the elbow" dress code unveiled by Health Secretary Alan Johnson, every doctor, nurse, and therapist will also be banned from wearing watches, jewelry such as rings and bracelets, and neckties.

September 17, 2007

GE, NCHL launch institute

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare and nonprofit organization National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) are teaming up to launch the Institute for Transformational Healthcare Leadership.

August 28, 2007

BMA says 30,000 doctors start new jobs amid chaos

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Aug 2 - A catalogue of new problems, including cancelled operations, are emerging as 30,000 junior doctors start their new jobs, the doctors' union warned on Wednesday. The British Medical Association (BMA) said the last-minute scramble to fill doctor posts in England will have a knock-on effect on quality.

August 1, 2007

British medics worried by lack of dead bodies

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jul 18 - Many medical schools in Britain now use pro-sections -- prepared body part samples which have been predissected by a tutor and which the students are allowed to examine. Increasingly few get hands-on experience of proper dissection. The problem, in part, is that there simply aren't enough bodies to go around. According to medical authorities, Britain needs around 1,000 bodies a year for use in training medical students and conducting scientific research.

July 17, 2007

Foreign doctors play key role in U.K. health system

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jul 3 - Foreign doctors play a vital role in running Britain's publicly funded health service and have to come through stringent tests before they are allowed to work here, health authorities said on Tuesday.

July 2, 2007

Occupational stress common among oncologists

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 3 - A study of oncologists and palliative care specialists reveals that occupational stress is common in these fields, according to a report in the June issue of Clinical Medicine.

July 2, 2007

Last day for junior doctor job offers

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jun 22 - Thousands of junior doctors face disappointment on Friday as the last few job offers are sent out for prized training posts across England. As many as 32,000 medics have been chasing around 20,000 National Health Service training jobs, with Friday the final day of the current round of recruitment.

June 21, 2007

Junior doctors lose jobs battle at U.K. High Court

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 23 - Junior doctors lost a legal bid on Wednesday to scrap a flawed job application system that has sparked angry protests from medics and led to calls for the health secretary to be sacked.

May 22, 2007

U.K. docs' group chief quits over job selection row

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 21 - The chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) has quit amid a row over a flawed doctors' job selection process, the association said on Sunday.

May 20, 2007

Doctors set to leave amid NHS training row

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Apr 25 - Thousands of junior doctors are set to work overseas due to flaws in recruitment to medical training, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned on Tuesday. More than half of junior doctors surveyed by the BMA are likely to leave the country if they do not secure a job through the government's training program.

April 24, 2007

Junior doctors walk out of job review body

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Mar 26 - A dispute over a controversial selection system for senior medical training posts worsened on Friday after junior doctors' representatives said they had walked out of an official review aimed at solving the row. Thousands of trainee medics marched through London last weekend in protest at a computerized application process that left many well-qualified candidates without a single interview.

March 25, 2007

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