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In Health Care Debate, Small Businesses Are Key
"As they work to overhaul the nation"s healthcare system, President Obama and his congressional allies have pledged to help small-business owners such as Rhonda Ealy and Kelli Glasser," The Los Angeles Times reports. "Both businesswomen desperately want help. But they have strongly divergent views about what Washington should do, reflecting a broader debate about how to relieve the burden on the nation"s roughly 6 million small businesses." Ealy owns a coffee roasting company in Bend, Ore. with 13 employees, she says she "loves a Democratic proposal to create a government-run insurance plan, which she hopes will allow her to get her employees better coverage for less." Glasser, who "makes museum and trade-show exhibits" and has 87 employees, "hates a separate provision in the legislation that would place a new requirement on many businesses to cover their employees."
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Two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Scientists Receive Presidential Early Career Award
President Obama has announced that two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigators have been awarded the nation"s highest honor for scientists at the beginning of their independent research careers. Basic scientist Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., and cancer-prevention researcher Ulrike "Riki" Peters, Ph.D., are among 100 researchers to receive the prestigious 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Each will be honored in a ceremony this fall at the White House.
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GPs Deliver Cost Effective Health Care, Australian Medical Association
An OECD report has confirmed that GP-led primary care is a cost effective way to promote good health while sending a warning about the need to better promote general practice as a career. The OECD Health Data 2009 report says despite the growing need for GPs worldwide there is an increasing trend towards specialisation. The number of specialists rose by 60% between 1990 and 2007, compared with only a 23% increase in GPs.
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Society Supports GHP Protest For Pharmacist Recruitment Premium, UK

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is backing the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists (GHP) bid to get the Government to review its decision on the recruitment and retention premium of pharmacists in hospitals and PCTs. The Pay Review Body last week recommended that band 6 and 7 pharmacists in these areas should receive the recruitment and retention premium (RRP) from October this year, but the Government has rejected this recommendation. Steve Churton, Society President said; "The Society has concerns that the current staff shortages will adversely affect patient care and that a failure to address the problem now will only make the problem worse. We wholly support the campaign being undertaken by GHP and Unite to get the Government to rethink its decision. "We are aware of the work the Guild has done to find a workable solution to the recruitment and retention of hospital and PCT pharmacists. Its findings that there is a national problem are consistent with the Pay Review Body and its recommendation of an RRP in the short term. We intend to raise this issue with Pharmacy Minister, Mike O"Brien at the earliest possible opportunity. "We are now encouraging pharmacists to write to their MP if they agree that this decision is unfair." Pharmacists from all sectors are being urged to contact their Health Secretary/Minister and local MP asking for the decision to be reviewed. There are letter templates available from the GHP website, www.ghp.org.uk that you can add your details to and send to the appropriate MP. A list of local MP"s can also be found via this website. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain


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