With the party conference season getting underway, attention moved off NHS waiting lists and strikes. However, the Nuffield Trust published a report highlighting the large numbers of medical and nursing students who never finish their degrees or start jobs in the NHS; a waste when vacancies are so high.
In EPR news, a big London trust prepared for its Epic go-live, as a huge Newcastle trust investigated why thousands of discharge summaries and letters have not been sent to GPs from its system. Meanwhile, the HETT conference and show took place in London, and we have a report.
