Author: Andy Cowper

New research has publicised the threat from ‘Steno’ – a hospital-acquired infection which in some strains, is resistant to all available antibiotics.

The House of Commons Health Select Committee has issued a damning report on the 2007 Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) programme for junior doctors’ training. MPs on the committee have condemned “inadequate leadership by the Department of Health” in their report, and warn that the problems remain “unresolved”.

A consultation in London on Health Minister Lord Darzi’s Healthcare For London plan for the introduction of polyclinics across the capital has met with public support.

Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb MP outlined his review of the party’s health policy at the first of the NHS Confederation’s Westminister Lectures.

Ex-NHS manager Baroness Young of Old Scone (formerly Barbara Young) has been nominated as the candidate to chair the new Care Quality Commission, which starts its work in April 2009. The nomination is subject to a process of ratification by a pre-appointment scrutiny hearing and report from the House of Commons Health select Committee. Health Secretary Alan Johnson will then consider their view, prior to making the appointment.