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Insurers Say Democratic 'Villain' Comments Hurtful To Process
Karen Ignagni, the health industry"s chief lobbyist, said Tuesday that insurers were being singled out and vilified for their role in health care reform when they are the ones trying to reform the system, The New York Times reports.

Dental Health Advocates Want To Sink Teeth Into Health Care Reform
The Washington Post reports many oral health professionals worry that dental issues have "a tenuous place at best in the national debate" regarding an overhaul of the health care system. Still, they emphasize that dental health is an integral part of health care and note the special burden untreated dental issues have on poor children. The paper also notes that "closing the gap between the worlds of dental care and medical care, with their separate histories and cultures, and their separate finance and delivery systems would be a formidable task."
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Lupus Foundation Of America Web Chat Explores "Your Skin And Lupus"
Approximately two-thirds of the 1.5 million Americans living with lupus will develop some type of skin disease. Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system is unbalanced causing it to become destructive to any organ and tissue in the body. Skin disease in lupus can cause rashes or sores (lesions), most of which will appear on sun-exposed areas, such as a person"s face, ears, neck, arms, and legs. In addition, 40-70 percent of people with systemic lupus will find that their disease is made worse by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays from sunlight or artificial light. For this and other reasons, people with lupus are advised to take steps to protect themselves from exposure to UV light.
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NMC Response To CHRE Report Re Advance Nurse Practice, UK

Following the publication of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) report on advanced practice, the NMC made the following statement. We still believe that the proliferation of nurses operating at an advanced level and the increasing number of titles used to describe these roles is confusing to the public. Our concerns about the public safeguarding implications have not changed. The NMC"s Professional Practice and Registrations Committee (PPRC) will receive a full briefing on the report at its next meeting in September. The NMC"s revalidation project The Government White Paper, Trust Assurance and Safety (2007) made revalidation an explicit requirement for the NMC and the other healthcare regulators. Since its publication the NMC has set up a project and is working to develop and implement a process for non-medical revalidation to ensure; - benefits to patient safety; - consideration of a risk assessment process which is sensitive to issues such as the effect of working environment and setting, and the contextual risks to patients; - accommodation of registrants working in and across different settings; - accommodation of emerging areas of practice, advanced practice and new ways of working; - that revalidation must contribute to the NMC"s understanding of the practitioner"s continuing fitness to practise; - identification of future needs for continuing professional development for registrants, such as links with advance nursing practice and nurse prescribing. The NMC"s revalidation project is a major piece of work for the organisation. We are currently undertaking research to build a knowledge base to develop a model of revalidation that is transparent, accountable, risk based, proportionate and targeted where action is required. The project will research elements of practice including advanced practice which will be added to the knowledge base. The findings from our revalidation research will be complete by April 2010 followed by a period of developing the revalidation model, piloting and consultation with a view to introducing the model by 2012. The PPRC will decide and make recommendations to Council if it believes that advanced practice warrants further regulatory action. Council will want to take account of the CHRE report and the findings from our revalidation research. However the decision to regulate advanced nurse practitioners ultimately rests with the Privy Council as it would require a change to the Nursing and Midwifery Council Order. The progression of any work around advanced nursing practice and regulation is co-dependent on the work to be undertaken in the revalidation project. More information - Information about the revalidation project: Revalidation - The Nursing and Midwifery Council Order and other statutory instruments: Legislation Nursing & Midwifery Council


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