The article reports that private sector involvement in the National Health Service (NHS) has the potential to deliver real and tangible improvements in the form of Diagnostic and Treatment Centres. There can be little doubt about Great Britain...
NHS Concern Grows over Fast-Track Treatment CentresPatients are 25% more likely to develop post-operative complications after being treated in one...Gainsbury, Sally
Emma Greenwood, head of policy development at Cancer Research UK, said: "We're delighted that this scheme could give patients fast-track access to a potential newbrain cancervaccine. "Time is vitally important and can mean the difference between life and death for manycancer patients, particularl...
(NHS) Institute for Innovation and Improvement in Great Britain titled €Focus On: Sick Patients with Suspected Cancer.€ The key principals hospitals need to deliver the best care to sick patients with possible cancer include early identification, prevention of unnecessary admission, and rapid ...
Cancer pathways were spanned by 10 operational standards, described in the NHS Constitution for England. These have now been simplified into three standards. Previously, patients could expect to receive an appointment in a specialist Faster Diagnosis Framework The Faster Diagnosis Framework outlines the...
A prospective single blinded randomised controlled trial within a university hospital NHS Trust was undertaken to determine if fast tracking low risk cardiac rehabilitation patients, under the supervision of an exercise instructor, is superior in the medium term to conventional service delivery. 100 low...
Inify has decided to establish its operations in the United Kingdom and to expand diagnostics into the gastrointestinal field. "The national health care system NHS in the UK has a high focus on pathways for patients that are going through cancer investigations, and here is exactly where we pro...
Number of patients eligible for fast track access to drugs through the cancer drugs fund is slashed The number of cancer indications for which patients can have fast track access to drugs not routinely available on the NHS through the cancer drugs fund ha... I Torjesen - Bmj 被引量: 1发表...
Fast Track Paper Eye (2012) 26, 897–898 & 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited All rights reserved 0950-222X/12 www.nature.com/eye Local anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery—new guidelines from the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists There has been a progressive...
Use of the urgent referral pathway (often called the two week wait system) by general practices for patients with suspected cancer is saving lives, according to a study in The BMJ this week.