48-hour target 'damaging GP care'
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Patients are not receiving the best care they could be because of the 48-hour GP access target.
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NEW YORK  - Trainee doctors have double the  risk of having a car crash when they work more than 24  consecutive hours, according to a new report.
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Authorities in the Pakistani city of Karachi accuse clinics of endangering health with blood past its expiry date.
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Proposed changes to healthcare regulation in the European Union could threaten  patient care standards, doctors argue.
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CHANGES IN the training of junior doctors and the introduction of the European Working Time Directive has led to a chronic shortage of qualified staff and warnings that patient care could be compromised, ...
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Teachers are told they cannot spend more than 38 hours a year covering for sick colleagues.
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THE pressure of meeting an important deadline at work increases by a factor of six the risk of suffering a heart attack within 24 hours, Swedish doctors say.
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New guidelines restricting the patients that GPs can refer to hospital will mean cancers are missed, warn doctors.
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An out-of-hours doctor service is criticised by Carwyn Jones AM after his two-year-old son had to wait for treatment.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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Diarrhoea cases were reported to be rapidly increasing yesterday in the tsunami disaster zone and the United Nations warned that there could be only 48 hours to prevent the major outbreak of waterborne diseases.
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British Medical Association says patients should be spared 'unnecessary' attempts to revive them.
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An Australian judge ruled on Monday that police should have another 48 hours to question an Indian doctor held over failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
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Abusive A&E patients should lose the right to free treatment, the Lib Dems have suggested.
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New watchdog could close hospitals within 24 hours.
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Business leaders warn that millions of working days are lost because of the lack of weekend GP clinics.
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Ministers are writing to every GP in England urging them to accept plans for extended opening hours.