NHS shakeup loaded in favour of private firms, say family doctors – The Guardian

[unable to retrieve full-text content] The Guardian NHS shakeup loaded in favour of private firms, say family doctorsThe GuardianThe key role of family doctors in the restructured NHS will be curtailed by moves that could see private firms given an unfair advantage when bidding for future contracts, doctors' leaders are warning. The British Medical Association ...Read More

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Records show Laffer shopped for doctors – Newsday

Originally published: November 18, 2011 12:14 AMUpdated: November 18, 2011 12:24 AMBy ROBERT LEWIS, SANDRA PEDDIE AND WILL VAN SANT  lidesk@newsday.com Photo credit: SCPD / Suffolk County Sherriff | Melinda Brady and David Laffer. David Laffer and his wife, Melinda Brady, filled prescriptions for almost 12,000 pain pills from dozens of doctors in the four ...Read More

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Local Nurse practitioners note national week in Nov. – Pocono Record

Buy This Photo Karen Powell, Anne Romanowski, Vickie Miller and in center is founder Abby Lasanta.A. Garcia/For Pocono Record By MELANIE VANDERVEER November 18, 2011 Nurse practitioners are popping up everywhere. The position is becoming a popular choice in many fields such as obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, family medicine and acute care. National Nurse Practitioner week ...Read More

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OhioHealth Expanding Relationship with athenahealth, Selects … – EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

–Not-for-profit provider system to utilize athenahealth’s cloud-based service to streamline patient interactions and improve accessibility outside practice walls– WATERTOWN, Mass.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based business services for physician practices, today announced that OhioHealth, a family of not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare organizations consisting of more than 900 physicians serving ...Read More

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Diverse Organizations Select Ultimate Software’s UltiPro Workplace for Peak … – MarketWatch (press release)

WESTON, Fla., Nov 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Ultimate Software /quotes/zigman/69257/quotes/nls/ulti ULTI -0.58% , a leading provider of unified human capital management SaaS solutions for global businesses, announced today that J. Spargo & Associates, MidSouth Bank, Clinica Family Health Services, and College Park Family Care have each selected UltiPro(R) Workplace as their single system-of-record to ...Read More

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U.K. Family Doctors May Lose Power to Decide on Employee Sickness Claims – Bloomberg

A U.K. government report into long- term sickness will urge ministers to set up a panel to assess whether people are too ill to work, so that employers don’t have to rely on family doctors, a person familiar with the document said. The Independent Review Into Sickness Absence, to be published next week, will say ...Read More

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Boring gains ‘family practice’ chiropractor – Sandy Post

By Jim Hart The Sandy Post, Nov 16, 2011 Jim Hart / Sandy Post Jonathan Rhue, D.C., stands outside his chiropractic clinic in downtown Boring. Rhue recently moved his practice from Sandy. ADVERTISEMENTS If there is a chiropractor who treats the entire body instead of just the spine, it is Jonathan Rhue, a chiropractic physician ...Read More

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VSU Celebrates Nurse Practitioner Week – Valdosta State University

Home » News » VSU Celebrates Nurse Practitioner Week November 16, 2011 11-223 Jessica R. PopeCommunications Specialist Sharon McDade, a nurse practitioner, right, reviews a patient’s file with a coworker at Dr. Willy Saurina’s office on North Ashley Street in Valdosta. VALDOSTA — Leanna Lewis, 31, entered Valdosta State University’s Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) Program ...Read More

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Providers Brace for Super Committee Health Care Cuts – CNBC.com

US News Page 1 of 5 | Next PageShow Entire Article Providers Brace for Super Committee Health Care Cuts CNBC.com | November 16, 2011 | 02:20 PM EST More than half the patients Fred Ralston sees at his rural family practice in Fayetteville, Tennessee are Medicare recipients. Even as officials in Washington are expected to ...Read More

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Nurse practitioner an asset for care home – Victoria Times Colonist

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Citybizlist Nurse practitioner an asset for care homeVictoria Times ColonistThe nurse practitioner supports other staff in their practice, and allows for greater collaboration between team and family. Health Canada studies have concluded that if nurse practitioners were used to their full potential, the cost-savings to our …Family medicine facing crisisTelegraph-Journal ...Read More

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