Today in healthcare: Friday 17 January

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A poll for the Guardian reveals GPs have responded to Jeremy Hunt’s criticisms of how they care for individuals by accusing the wellness secretary of trying to harm the public’s trust in them. Well being correspondent Denis Campbell writes:

… 4 in five loved ones medical professionals say they think Hunt is deliberately looking for to undermine trust through a series of at times trenchant attacks on them, and some complain that they are becoming employed as “political scapegoats”.

The poll identified that 83% of respondents agreed with the statement that “Jeremy Hunt is searching for to undermine public trust in GPs”, and 3% disagreed.

An even more substantial proportion (88%) rejected Hunt’s repeated claim that the contract agreed among Labour ministers and GPs in 2004 – which meant family members doctors no longer had to provide out-of-hours care – was a crucial contributor to higher overcrowding in hospital A&ampE units.

Here’s this morning’s other healthcare headlines:

• HSJ: NHS micromanagement will not provide worth says business guru

• GP on the web: GPs to see ten% core pay out rise

• Independent: Chief Healthcare Officer highlights ‘worrying’ trend of delayed pregnancies

• Pulse: Two million sufferers eligible for bariatric surgical procedure, estimate researchers

• Telegraph: Thousands of doctors accused of malpractice never completely checked

• Guardian: Campaign launched to increase profile of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis illness

The access to psychological well being providers bill has its second studying in the Commons right now.

Roger Taylor has been appointed a national professional adviser at the Care Good quality Commission to help create its new strategy to data and intelligence.

Marie Curie Cancer Care has launched a campaign calling for enhanced end of life care for men and women from minority ethnic groups.

On the network right now, Wayne Parslow of MedeAnalytics, looks at the position of “huge data” in the NHS. He writes:

Healthcare and lifestyle sciences are the quickest developing and biggest influence industries today when it comes to massive information. In the United kingdom, enormous anonymised datasets are getting developed for regions such as pharmaceutical research, with the aim of vastly bettering the efficacy of drugs. Illness investigation is also being supported by large data to help tackle situations this kind of as diabetes and cancer.

But the United kingdom has an opportunity to go much even more in unleashing the genuine power of big data – the prospective to personalise healthcare for each NHS patient. Identifying folks at chance of turning out to be unwell or establishing a significant issue and providing the foresight to prescribe preventive measures is a very real probability.

We’ve also a piece by Alan Maynard, professor of overall health economics at the University of York, on tackling well being inequalities. He calls for practitioners and policymakers to do their investigation and make sure policy alterations will not waste society’s precious resources.

And our newest day in the life characteristic focuses on Tracy Bromley, a overall health visitor for homeless families.

Elsewhere, Danny Dorling and Clare Bambra describe two low-cost ways councils can battle health inequality on the Conversation website and Roy Lilley writes about NHS Modify Day on his NHS Managers site.

On social media, Neil Churchill highlighted a collaboration between an ENT surgeon and an artist at the Royal London hospital:

Guy’s and St Thomas’ followed its porters earlier this week to “increase awareness of the important function they perform in our hospitals”. The trust has compiled a Storify of the “#FollowAPorter” project

That is all for right now, we’ll be back on Monday with our digest of the day’s healthcare information.

Today in healthcare: Friday 17 January