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The Guardian reviews that up to 240 prosecutions a yr alleging wilful neglect or sick-treatment of patients could take area below a new criminal offence to be launched in England following the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal. James Meikle reviews:
People could face up to five many years imprisonment and/or £5,000 in fines, says a consultation paper and impact assessment on proposed new legislation. The organisations that use them could encounter far stiffer monetary penalties.
Such a law would act as a deterrent and match penalties that previously exist for these who unwell-treat people with out mental capacity, says the Department of Well being.
There’s also information that the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has pledged considerably more rapidly diagnosis occasions for folks with suspected dementia.
Today’s other healthcare headlines:
• Guardian: NHS ombudsman delivers scathing verdict on Furness hospital believe in
• Nursing Occasions: Third of NHS workers have noticed patient security ‘near miss’
• HSJ: NHS England’s HR director to depart
• Telegraph: Minister launches evaluation of harmful new ‘legal high’
Writing for the network right now, Mohammad Al’Ubaydli, chief executive and founder of Sufferers Know Best, says individuals need to have control more than their personal data if care.information is to perform. He writes:
The case the government helps make for care.data, that permitting health care researchers entry to patient data will end result in new cures, is a difficult one particular to oppose. If the case were so easy then most folks, which includes me, would welcome it.
The question that the care.data hard work brings to light is a simple one particular – why has the NHS moved so speedily to give patient medical records to third events and so slowly to provide information to the patient themselves? For me, this is totally the wrong way round.
In an examination piece for GP on the internet, Graham Clews asks: What following for care.information?
We’ve a live discussion from noon today on the position of technology in integrating health and social care. Publish a question for our panel now or join the debate as is transpires.
Elsewhere, Jennifer Dixon writes for the Overall health Basis weblog on the NHS funding challenge and Candace Imison asks on the King’s Fund site whether hospital chains are a recipe for success and the Economist has a piece on what other countries are copying from the NHS.
That is all for these days, we’ll be back on Monday reporting dwell from NHS Expo in Manchester. And really do not overlook, there is nonetheless time to consider part in our newest health experts survey – share your views on how your functioning lifestyle has altered more than the final year.
Right now in healthcare: Friday 28 February
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