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《英国医生杂志》
Gap between medical academics' pay closed: Senior academic GPs are to be paid at the same rate as academic consultants, after intensive lobbying by the BMA. Health minister John Hutton announced ￡3m ($5.7m; 4.4m) of additional funding to close the gap, which emerged when the clinical academic contract took effect in 2003 and academic consultants transferred to the new consultant contract.
First private finance initiative in NHS delivers: The first private finance initiative in the NHS delivered the services and facilities for which it was contracted, on time and within budget, says a report from the public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, on Darent Valley Hospital, part of the Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust (www.nao.org.uk).
Pharmacist faces disciplinary hearing after Shipman inquiry: Ghislaine Brant, a pharmacist criticised for not spotting the abnormal pattern of prescribing by the serial killer GP Harold Shipman, faces a disciplinary hearing at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Hyperactivity drug withdrawn in Canada: Canada's national regulator, Health Canada, has withdrawn market authorisation for Adderall XR (amphetamine mixed salts) because of concerns about the association with sudden deaths, heart related deaths, and strokes in children and adults taking the usual recommended doses of the treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
WHO experts help Vietnam to study avian flu transmission: Experts from the World Health Organization are in Vietnam to help the authorities there with laboratory procedures and to study the transmission mechanism of H5N1 influenza from birds to humans. WHO experts are also in Cambodia working with the Ministry of Health to develop surveillance and public education about the disease in Kampot province, the region of Cambodia's first human case of avian influenza.
First private finance initiative in NHS delivers: The first private finance initiative in the NHS delivered the services and facilities for which it was contracted, on time and within budget, says a report from the public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, on Darent Valley Hospital, part of the Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust (www.nao.org.uk).
Pharmacist faces disciplinary hearing after Shipman inquiry: Ghislaine Brant, a pharmacist criticised for not spotting the abnormal pattern of prescribing by the serial killer GP Harold Shipman, faces a disciplinary hearing at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Hyperactivity drug withdrawn in Canada: Canada's national regulator, Health Canada, has withdrawn market authorisation for Adderall XR (amphetamine mixed salts) because of concerns about the association with sudden deaths, heart related deaths, and strokes in children and adults taking the usual recommended doses of the treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
WHO experts help Vietnam to study avian flu transmission: Experts from the World Health Organization are in Vietnam to help the authorities there with laboratory procedures and to study the transmission mechanism of H5N1 influenza from birds to humans. WHO experts are also in Cambodia working with the Ministry of Health to develop surveillance and public education about the disease in Kampot province, the region of Cambodia's first human case of avian influenza.