Lots of health news today

Lots of health news today.

@Pulse survey finds half of GPs plan to retire early. The RCN conference?continues generating soundbites - latest being a claim of postcode lottery for treatment of #LongCovid.

In other news, Sajid Javid says we’re on track to build 48 new hospitals. Your daily digested #healthnews from www.salixandco.com/salix-bureau/

Primary care, pharmacy, dentistry, optical, community

Half of GPs ‘plan on retiring aged 60 or before? - survey of more than 800 GPs for Pulse magazine found around 47% intend to retire at or before 60. Of these, 11% said they intended to retire aged 50 to 55, with only 14% intending to retire aged 66 or over. Those responding to the survey gave a number of reasons why they wanted to leave the profession, with the most common being burnout and workload, although issues with pensions were also a significant reason ITV

DH: No plans to shorten pharmacists’ training, despite Brexit proposal C+D

Public Health

RCN: Patients with long Covid are facing a postcode lottery across the UK when it comes to getting care Guardian

Revealed: racial disparity in cancer diagnoses via screening in England

Research finds black people are 38% less likely than white people to be diagnosed in this way Guardian

NHS drops the word 'women' from internet guidance on ovarian, womb and cervical cancers in bid to be inclusive D Mail

Trusts

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT is suing its private finance initiative provider and an international construction company for millions after fire safety defects forced part of an acute hospital to close HSJ

NHS Performance / ￡ / Policy

Innovative Medicines Fund launched to fast-track drugs - The Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF) works like the existing Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), fast-tracking promising treatments, even if they are expensive and have not yet been approved for routine NHS use BBC

Cancer provider - collapses despite NHS catch-up drive: Rutherford, a? private cancer diagnostic and treatment provider which last year signed a “game-changing” elective recovery deal with an NHS trust has collapsed and is set to be liquidated HSJ

Javid: Government ‘on track’ to deliver 48 new hospitals - The Sunday Times reported budget disputes between The Treasury, Number 10 and the Department of Health and Social Care were holding up the new hospitals programme. A source said Treasury officials were sceptical the DHSC could control spending on the projects and was delaying sign-off until a total budget had been agreed HSJ