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Primary care news round-up (2nd January to 8th January 2025)

Practice Index

This week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer launched the latest plans to reduce waiting lists, promising fast access to diagnostic facilities. The post Primary care news round-up (2nd January to 8th January 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Build Safety Culture During Patient Safety Awareness Week

Relias

One action you can take this week: At your next huddle or staff meeting, whether it’s a daily huddle with your team or a weekly leadership huddle, make a point of speaking up about the importance of ways to improve patient safety. into perspective. Listen to Your People.

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Most Important

Sensible Medicine

The next morning when I came in to round as the 3 rd year resident on the team, I found Cara quietly crying at one of the desks behind the nurses’ station. They found a medication that made it harder to induce VT and sent him up to the medical floor for admission and monitoring with instructions to initiate that medication.

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Friday Reflection 38: Yesterday’s Solutions; Today’s Problems

Sensible Medicine

Digital X-rays have turned radiologists — once valued colleagues with whom you would round post call — into mere digital signatures. That 95-hour work week was not all work. There was a fair amount of downtime. Some of the patients we cared for would not even be in the hospital today.

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25 Technology Grants for Healthcare Startups

Arkenea

Clinical Trials of Medical Devices The NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) is offering funds for clinical trials of medical devices such as diagnostic, surgical, or rehabilitative devices. Healthcare companiescan expect to raise a seed round of up to $50,000 from Healthbox.

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Raising Capital in a Highly Regulated Market

Healthcare Law Insights blog

What Investors Look for in Early and Late-Stage Funding Rounds and How Regulatory Compliance Impacts Valuation For early-stage life sciences and health tech companies, raising capital is about more than demonstrating scientific promise. What Investors Are Prioritizing in Todays Market 1. Regulatory ambiguity is a dealbreaker.

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What I Read Last Week

Sensible Medicine

Although they are clearly written by a dedicated physician, their strength and beauty is not in their description of disease or the diagnostic process but in their perceptive and empathic description of people (definitively people rather than patients) for whom he has cared. Earnest’s pieces are something special.