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Patients could be at risk from unregulated ‘cheap’ healthcare workers
Patients could be at risk from unregulated ‘cheap’ healthcare workers
Patients could be left at risk from a growing number of unqualified and unregulated healthcare workers, it has been claimed.
By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent 7:00AM BST 20 Apr 2011
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There are at least 150,000 healthcare assistants working in hospitals and care homes, often carrying out important roles such as washing and feeding patients, and more are being employed as a cheap alternative to more experienced clinical staff.
But unlike doctors, nurses and midwives, there are no training requirements for healthcare assistants and support staff and no watchdog to discipline those that break rules, meaning that those who are sacked can simply move to another employer.
Restoring the formal right for patients to be registered with a dentist
Dentists switch to new pay system based on “quality”By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News
From this summer, dentists in England will be paid for the quality of the treatment they give rather than the quantity, the government has confirmed.
Simple test to save 3,000 from bowel cancer every year
3,000 lives could be saved through bowel cancer test
Millions of people are to be allowed to take a simple test that could significantly lower their risk of developing bowel cancer.
As many as 3,000 lives could be saved every year and many diseases could be detected earlier, saving the NHS money, by the decision of the UK National Screening Committee to recommend the procedure for all those aged between 55 and 59.
Figures suggest that using a short one-off test for bowel cancer among middle-aged Britons could reduce incidence rates by 33 per cent and death rates by 43 per cent.
Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK’s chief executive, said: “Recent trial results of this method of detecting and removing polyps before they develop into bowel cancer can truly be called a breakthrough.
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