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In a report published on 30 September its General Practitioners Committee called for occupational health services to be made available to all practice staff, alongside free supplies of personal protective equipment, suspension of routine inspections by the Care Quality Commission, and suspension of...
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| Published in: | BMJ (Online) 2020-10, Vol.371, p.m3874-m3874 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | In a report published on 30 September its General Practitioners Committee called for occupational health services to be made available to all practice staff, alongside free supplies of personal protective equipment, suspension of routine inspections by the Care Quality Commission, and suspension of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, as part of efforts to reduce bureaucracy. Nobel prize Scientists behind HCV discovery are recognised The 2020 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine was awarded to Harvey J Alter of the US National Institutes of Health, Michael Houghton of Rockefeller University in New York, and Charles M Rice, a virologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, who made seminal discoveries leading to the identification of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, she called for tighter efficiency in the submission process and for research ethics and integrity training to be mandated for all researchers.3 Make papers free to read, says US funder The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which spent $763m (£592m; €648m) on funding biomedical research that leads to around 2500 papers a year, has said that it will require the scientists it funds to make papers open access as soon as they are published. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-1833 1756-1833 |