
The General Medical Council has published a step-by-step guide for junior international
medical graduates seeking registration and employment in the UK … 
A Nuffield Council Working Party established in October 2004 to consider the ethical,
social, legal and economic issues involved in critical care decisions relating to
neonates, has today published its report … 
A series of roadshows are to be held in December to explain the new NHS Connecting for
Health front-line IT support service … 
… Wales and Northern Ireland, although the majority of patients newly diagnosed
with HIV, TB and malaria are born outside the UK … 
Latest figures for September show the average length of time a patient can expect to wait
for a test has fallen from around seven weeks in April to around five … 
The theme of this year’s World COPD Day is 'Breathless not Helpless' … 
Commissioning of NHS services must remain a core function of the NHSand any attempt to
privatise commissioning will put at risk the central ethos of the NHS, the BMA warns … 
The Evercare case management system for older patients, a key element of Government
community care policy, fails to reduce emergency admissions, emergency bed days or
mortality, a BMJ study reveals … 
NHS reform should be based on clinical need rather than political point scoring say
Scotland’s doctors … 