Sarah Johnson writes
This weekend, Randeep Ramesh, the Guardian's social affairs editor, wrote that the controversial cancer drugs fund, which pays for expensive treatments considered poor value for money by regulators, will get a £400m boost – effectively extending its life for two years.
The Observer reported that a private health insurance company has been forced to take down an advert from its website after it tried to sell its products by claiming that the NHS had been responsible for 13,000 needless deaths since 2005. The claim, made by Bestmedicalcover, was found by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to have used an "appeal to fear to sell private health insurance and that it was not justified to do so".
The Telegraph featured a story that said NHS bureaucrats have banned the term 'elderly' from leaflets for fear of offending patients.
The paper also quoted health secretary Jeremy Hunt as saying that GPs need "rigorous inspection".
Meanwhile, the BBC said that charities have warned the government over the impact of an ageing population. And it featured a video with an expert from Cardiff University saying that combining traditional forms of Chinese and Western medicine could offer new hope for developing new treatments for some cancers.
It also reported that Professor Steve Field, the NHS's first chief inspector of GPs, warned that failing GP surgeries face closure.
The Sunday Times (subscription) ran a story that said the NHS must reform the way it treats children to prevent 2,000 youngsters dying needlessly every year due to poor care. The call comes from Hilary Cass, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, who said children in Britain were far more likely to die from diseases or infections such as asthma, pneumonia and meningitis than elsewhere in western Europe.
And, it said that almost half of maternity units have been forced to turn away women in labour because they are full and struggling to cope with the highest birth rate for 40 years
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