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Ann Dix

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Clinical management. Where medicine meets management. Assistants required.

The use of US-trained physician assistants is addressing a GP shortage in the West Midlands and is being extended to emergency care. PAs are trained in general and first-contact medicine and undergo rigorous, regular re-certification. Birmingham University is evaluating the scheme with a view to UK-based training and accreditation.

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Clinical management. Where medicine meets management. Kidney complaint.

The renal NSF sets a 10-year modernization plan for dialysis and transplantation. The shortage of haemodialysis facilities are blamed for UK end-stage renal failure death rates being 36 per cent higher than in other European countries. Critics have targeted the NSF's lack of hard-hitting targets.

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