<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>OnMedica News</title><link>http://www.onmedica.com/News.aspx</link><description>The latest news from OnMedica</description><language>en</language><copyright>2010 OnMedica</copyright><pubDate>09 September 2010</pubDate><image><url>http://www.onmedica.com/gfx/maintitleAnimated.gif</url><title>OnMedica</title><link>http://www.onmedica.com</link></image><item><title>Failure to implement NICE obesity guidance costs UK economy dear</title><link>http://www.onmedica.com/newsArticle.aspx?id=a89e07ec-a217-4dc9-a486-8e7d0411592e</link><pubDate>08 September 2010</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onmedica.com/newsArticle.aspx?id=a89e07ec-a217-4dc9-a486-8e7d0411592e"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.onmedica.com/getResource.aspx?resourceID=6a3c6956-515d-4f35-8906-12eedc6d9196&amp;width=80" alt="" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;Half of PCTs “pick n mix” guidance and one in 10 ignore it altogether, which costs UK economy £millions
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introduced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description></item><item><title>Health secretary pledges to renegotiate European Working Time Directive</title><link>http://www.onmedica.com/newsArticle.aspx?id=51602ac2-ec2f-43c9-adcf-2c72d076c83b</link><pubDate>08 September 2010</pubDate><description>&lt;table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="80" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.onmedica.com/newsArticle.aspx?id=51602ac2-ec2f-43c9-adcf-2c72d076c83b"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.onmedica.com/getResource.aspx?resourceID=fbfea657-c56b-4a53-98fd-69b71ce6dc70&amp;width=80" alt="" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;Pledge comes amid mounting evidence of detrimental impact on patient care and quality of medical training&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;Related items from &lt;a href="http://www.onmedica.com"&gt;OnMedica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a 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