Archives for April 1st, 2009

CALL FOR BETTER RETURN FOR HEALTH SERVICES FROM INVESTMENT IN DRUGS

Headlines, PublicNet: 1 April, 2009

Changes are needed in the way drugs are evaluated according to experts who say patients and health services are getting a poor return on their investment into new drugs. In an article published on bmj.com today they say the industry talks about the expense of bringing a new product to the market but it is the public who provide most of the support for developing and evaluating new drugs.

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REPORT POINTS TO PE’s POSITIVE IMPACT ON PUPILS

Headlines, PublicNet: 1 April, 2009

Schools’ imaginative approach to physical education teaching is helping to reduce pupils’ disaffection, according to a report from Ofsted today. It says activities such as mountain biking, dance, martial arts, and yoga mean many pupils’ experience of the subject bears no relation to the stereotype of suffering sport in the rain.

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BETTER CUSTOMER CARE

Abstracts, PublicNet: 1 April, 2009

A single set of arrangements for dealing with complaints across NHS and adult social care starts operating on 1 April 2009. It gives organisations the flexibility they need to deal with complaints effectively. It will also encourage a culture that seeks and then uses people’s experiences to improve care. The current complaints systems are being reformed because many problems took too long to resolve, the processes were bureaucratic and services didn’t try to systematically learn from mistakes.

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