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NMC Statement: Misleading Information In Nursing Standard
This week Nursing Standard published some misleading and speculative information regarding the NMC"s registration fee. The story, titled "Registration fees could increase as regulator goes into black", also included factually inaccurate information about the NMC"s diversity data collection exercise which will soon be launched.
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New Yorker Examines Causes Of Rising Health Care Costs; Highlights McAllen, Texas
In a recent New Yorker essay, physician Atul Gawande examines the rising cost of health care in the U.S. and how controlling those costs is a central issue as lawmakers prepare health care overhaul legislation. Gawande compares hospitals in McAllen, Texas -- which is in the county with the lowest household income nationwide but has one of the most expensive health care markets in the U.S. -- with hospitals in other parts of the country that have lower costs but higher quality of care. He writes, "McAllen and other cities like it have to be weaned away from their untenably fragmented, quantity-driven systems of health care, step by step," which means rewarding physicians and hospitals that "collaborate to increase prevention and the quality of care, while discouraging overtreatment, undertreatment and sheer profiteering" (Gawande, New Yorker, 6/1).
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$3.7M NIH Grant To Study Autonomic Nervous System Link To Painful Bladder Syndrome, Received By Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine if painful bladder syndrome may be caused by abnormalities in the autonomic nervous system rather than in the bladder itself.
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$3.3 Million Awarded To University Of Liverpool, UK, For Genomics Hub

The University of Liverpool has been awarded ÷£2.2 million to establish a high-throughput genomic analysis hub for the North of England. The funding - comprising ÷£2 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and ÷£200,000 from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) - is part of a ÷£7 million initiative by the MRC to boost the UK research community"s access to cutting-edge equipment for DNA sequencing with the establishment of high-throughput hubs in Scotland, the North of England and the East of England. The three hubs will receive funding for high-throughput sequencing machines which will be made available to all academics in the UK. Led by the University of Liverpool, the North of England hub will consolidate the expertise of four partner universities - Manchester, Sheffield, Lancaster and Liverpool - to accelerate the study of genetics in the UK and meet the challenges of research in tumour sequencing, genetic susceptibility and personalised medicine. It will be supported by the Clatterbridge Cancer Research Trust. The University already hosts the Advanced Genomics Facility which is a leading facility for pathogen sequencing, with client researchers from major companies and research institutions in the US, Germany, Sweden and Ireland. The hub will expand the capacity of this facility to make expertise and technology widely available to researchers and clinicians throughout the North of England. Professor Neil Hall, from the School of Biological Sciences and Principal Investigator of the North of England Hub, said: "There is a pressing need to understand the basis of genetic variation and to use it to define the most appropriate treatment for each patient with a particular condition. This "personalised medicine" will require establishing the DNA sequence of particular genes in those patients. Such research will benefit greatly from the new hub in the North of England by allowing much more productive sequencing technologies to be made available across the research community." John Jeans, MRC Chief Operating Officer, said: "This investment is key to retaining and enhancing the UK"s competitiveness. It makes plain the MRC"s commitment to supporting high quality basic research and exemplifies the responsiveness of MRC strategic investment to the needs of the research community." "Inviting regional applications has generated innovative partnerships between academic institutions, as well as engagement with industry, the NHS and Regional Genetics Services. This initiative will engender innovative ways of working and enable new and exciting discoveries. We hope the hubs will allow scientists to ask increasingly precise questions about diseases, and gather answers that were undreamt of only a decade ago." Kate Spark University of Liverpool


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