Patients at Ram Mohan Lohla Hospital, AIIMS, PGI Chandigarh and NIMHAMS will exercise from next month what could become a permanent fixture in the Indian medial landscape-they will provide feedback regarding the quality of services which will help determine the rating for the hospital. As a way to provide star ratings to government health facilities, […]
As a way to incentivize doctors for serving in rural regions of India, the Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the doctors the benefit of extra marks in admission to different Post-Graduate(PG) courses. In this regard, a bench that was headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur held that eligible in-service doctors will be granted extra […]
The Clinical Establishments Act. There’s hardly a doctor in India who would smile happily upon hearing that term. The more technically accurate name of the act is The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010. And it has invited severe criticism from many in the medical fraternity, some viewing it as impractical in many ways, […]
The non-teaching doctors in Goa now need retire only by the age of 62. The approval to this end was given by the cabinet on Tuesday. Before this, the retirement age was 60 years. The new retirement age will benefit about 100 doctors in the state. Talking to the media on Tuesday, Chief Minister Laxmikant […]
Decision has been taken by the Ministry of Health and family Welfare for a policy initiative that will set an upper limit on the fee charged by medical colleges in India-in both the private and government sectors. The idea of capping the fee comes as part of an amendment to the Indian Medical Council Act […]
A recent proposal made by a high level committee which has the NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya at its helm has many intrigued. The proposal mentions replacing the Medical Council of India(MCI) with the National Medical Commission(NMC). In view of the frequent reports of corruption in the MCI, the central government instituted a panel the […]
This is probably not a good time to be the Medical Council of India (MCI). In what is seen as an embarrassment to the organization, a panel appointed by the Supreme Court overruled its decision that denied permission for 86 new medical colleges in the academic session starting September 30. The panel, in fact was […]
Instigating Ayush in 2014 was one of the more talked about moves in Indian medicine in recent times. And a significant question that many began asking after it concerned a possible future in which the best of both traditional and western medicine are clubbed for the greater good. The question has divided people with different […]
Of late, patient engagement has earned more significance than ever before. Many reasons could be cited for this but the most important would probably be a more informed patient’s demand for better care. A good patient engagement is also important to setting the grounds for establishing trust. Indeed, quality patient engagement can be considered as […]
Given below are the things that you should know in the event of a legal case. But these rights are more than just good-to-know given how there’s an alarming rise in such cases. 1)If an act is deemed negligence in civil law, it needn’t necessarily be so in criminal law 2)An act is criminal negligence […]