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The NHS Alliance/Humana PBC Partnership, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence, is among the five providers appointed by the Department of Health to support the PBC Development Framework for Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and practice-based commissioners.
Local areas will be able to get the support they need from skilled organisations, which will help to make [...]

Latest figures show that roughly 135 000 African-born physicians and professional nurses practice overseas in developed countries. This finding, published in the online open access journal Human Resources for Health, suggests that approximately one-fifth of doctors and 10% of nurses born in any of the 27 African states are currently working in a developed nation.
The [...]

Some experts and doctors recently have voiced concerns that people who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the early years of the epidemic are experiencing “prematur[e]” or “disproportionate numbers” of ailments associated with aging, the New York Times reports. CDC estimates show that the number of people ages 50 and older living with HIV increased by [...]

One out of three Dallas-area physicians cited on the 2007-2008 Best Doctors in America listing are UT Southwestern Medical Center faculty.
More than 200 physicians affiliated with UT Southwestern appear on the list, which is published every two years and includes just 5 percent of U.S. doctors.
Created by Best Doctors, Inc., the list is the culmination [...]

The Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) approved changes to its Policy on Licensure Standards for Certification and Maintenance of Certification at its recent Annual Assembly Meeting which update and clarify the expectations for medical licensure by physicians who wish to become board certified by an ABMS Member Board or [...]

The American Board of Medical Specialties(R) (ABMS) has redefined terms associated with a physician’s clinical active status to better indicate a physician’s participation in patient care activities. This change also includes guidelines for physician reentry and procedures for public reporting.
Following the recommendations of the Maintenance of Certification Task Force, a designation of “clinically active” refers [...]

Responding to the news that the government is imposing draconian contract terms on GP´s to force them to extend opening hours in a way that will hit patient care, Dr Laurence Buckman, Chairman of the BMA’s GP Committee said:
“The government seems hell bent on tearing up a quality based contract designed to improve the health [...]

Hospital emergency departments nationwide are “increasingly unable” to find and retain specialists to help treat seriously injured and ill patients at a time when EDs are “already struggling with overcrowding and growing patient loads,” the Washington Post reports. A nationwide survey by the American College of Emergency Physicians in 2005, the most recent available, found [...]

While finding a physician is “relatively simple, finding one who understands the patient — and who can be understood by the patient in return — is the tougher task when language and culture stand in the way,” an East Brunswick Home News Tribune editorial states. The editorial adds, “Familiarity breeds comfort, comfort creates trust, and [...]

As the number of Hispanics in rural areas increases, care providers are re-examining how they deliver health services and trying to find ways to overcome cultural and language barriers, the AP/High Plains Journal reports. The Hispanic population in rural areas increased from 1.4 million in 1980 to 2.7 million in 2000, when the latest census [...]