NHS Direct — the nurse-led 24-hour telephone helpline — is the flagship initiative of the 'New NHS'. The scheme is already available to over 19 million people, and is planned to serve 60% of England by the end of 1999 and the whole of the country by the end of 2000. It is ...
The survey also discovers problems with access to NHS care, concern on patient charges and the move of some patients to resort to self-treatment.doi:10.1038/bdj.2007.1018NoneBritish Dental JournalBDJ News. Dental watch survey: campaign highlights dentistry access problems in England. BDJ 2007;203...
The UK offers similar coverage for refugees and asylum seekers, providing access to a broad range of National Health Service (NHS) benefits, including primary and secondary care, optical and dental care, free prescriptions and coverage of travel costs to/from hospital [33]. It is important to ...
Prospects for progress on health inequalities in England in the post-primary care trust era: professional views on challenges, risks and opportunities. Background: Addressing health inequalities remains a prominent policy objective of the current UK government, but current NHS reforms involve a significa...
Recently the issue of access to health services has been brought into sharp focus by clear evidence of rationing--patients queuing for NHS registration--in the NHS General Dental Services (GDS). Conventional estimates suggest that about 50% of adults are registered per annum. This paper ...
Although inequalities may exist for other conditions and other healthcare settings, particularly internationally, the implication is that ethnic inequalities in healthcare are minimal within NHS primary care. 展开 关键词: blood pressure cholesterol dental health diabetes ethnic groups ethnicity health care ...
However, access to dental care in nursing homes is often limited, which means that problems can become more severe and require more expertise to manage. If the majority of nursing home residents require simple dental treatment, it could be delivered by a Methods The 2010 Welsh dental care home...
What's in a care pathway? Towards a cultural cartography of the new NHS Maps are increasingly understood as socio-cultural and political constructs, rather than mirrors of nature. Drawing on the insights of cultural cartographe... R Pinder,R Petchey,S Shaw,... - 《Sociol Health Illn》 被引...
Covid-19: Judge gives permission for NHS trust to remove life support from patient A High Court judge has given permission for an NHS trust to remove a 52 year old man with covid-19 from life support and allow him to die.1 The man, named only as KM, had deep vein thrombosis as a...
The Italian healthcare system is based on a combination of the public and private sectors. The public component is represented by the National Health Service (NHS), financed through general taxation. One third of the NHS budget, however, is used to finance private providers. Albeit the Italian...