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Primary care news round-up (20th to 26th March 2025)

Practice Index

This compared with 87 in 2022 and 52 in 2021. The post Primary care news round-up (20th to 26th March 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. Yorkshire practices face crime increase Practices in South Yorkshire have suffered a steep increase in incidents of crime. 16,000 doctors took part in the survey.

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Sword Health, the Hinge Health S1 and me

The Healthcare Blog

The problem is that the last round in 2021 was at a $6bn+ ZIRP era valuation with Tiger & Coatue paying the idiot price because Teladoc was trading at $15bn market cap then (albeit down from $30bn a year before that!).

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CMS targets fraudulent health insurance enrollments in new rule for ACA exchanges

Medical Economics

The COVID-19 pandemic spread in 2020, and Congress approved generous subsidies for health insurance in the American Rescue Plan of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The plans had high premium costs, so enrollment never reached projected levels, which undermined the competitiveness of the market.

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Recent News Headlines Infer that Cannabis is Deadly

Sensible Medicine

They included all individuals who used the province’s public health insurance program—which covers 97% of residents between 2006 and 2021. I will use rounded numbers.) The study The Ottawa-led team assessed the risk of death in the 5 years after a hospital visit for cannabis use disorder. That’s about 0.9%.

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The Spirit for Eating Healthier Is Willing, But the Cost of Doing So “Outweighs” the Will – Listening to Escoffier

Health Populi

With that lens, Escoffier recently published a report on the future of healthy eating , which will round out this week’s Health Populi landscape on food and health. Today we turn to the chefs at Escoffier who know food, teach food, and now offer programs in holistic nutrition and wellness through the lens of culinary arts.

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Congress Introduces Safe Staffing Bill for Hospitals to Protect Nurses

Scrubs

National Nurses United has been gathering support for the bill as it makes the rounds in Congress. A 2021 study found that if New York had passed a similar safe staffing law, 4,370 lives would have been saved that year alone. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09) in the House. It is set to be introduced today during a press conference.

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Aflac Finds Health Care and Financial Stress will “Dampen 2021 Holiday Magic” in U.S. Households

Health Populi

householders that experienced COVID-19 expect their 2021 December holidays will be impacted in terms of reducing their holiday gift or decor spending, canceling holiday travel plans to see family or friends, or canceling holiday events, according to the 2021 Aflac Health Care Issues Survey. Aflac polled 1,003 U.S.