The previous Green Nephrology fellowships have shown that leading a move to sustainable healthcare is a great educational opportunity for an individual, as well as being an exciting project to be…
David Pencheon has been quoted recently as seeing opportunity in the disruption caused by the passing of the Health and Social Care Act.
With new commissioning groups forming, priorities and visions…
Not sure whether people have seen this article in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/03/prescription-medicine-unused?INTCMP=SRCH
Regards,
Mark
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Clearly a fair number (I am not sure exactly how many) of units are now…
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