The NHS Health Check is a preventive programme in the UK designed to screen for cardiovascular risk and to aid in primary disease prevention. Despite its widespread implementation, the effectiveness of the NHS Health Check for longer-term disease prevent
utilising a sample of women over 16 years of age without a specified psychopathology. For the purposes of this metasynthesis, the postpartum phase will be considered
This comparison involves reading and understanding the meaning of the original authors’ interpretations, but no further conceptual development [26]. Second-order constructs from the included studies were compared systematically to identify the range of concepts and whether their meanings were similar or ...
11.4% of all the merit award-winners were international medical graduates (IMGs) - meaning that they were not graduates of UK or Irish medical schools. 9% of the pathologist award-winners were IMGs. The pathologist tier 3 award-winners included the greatest proportion of IMG award-winners at...
(PUH), and Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust (BH). United Kingdom NHS approval via the national oversight/regulatory body, the Health Research Authority (HRA), has been granted for development and validation of artificial intelligence models to detect COVID-19 (CURIAL; NHS HRA IRAS ID...
Rules and regulations were implemented, dictating where a person could go, who they could see and whether they were able to work [51], meaning pregnant women – especially those in the UK NHS system – often struggled to draw upon the social and healthcare professional support they felt they...
While embryonic signals seemed to have no discernable biological meaning once more mature references were available, we found a strong and consistent difference between the amount of retained foetal signal, or “foetalness”, in childhood versus adult tumours (Fig. 1C). This finding extends previous...
According to the Global fund annual report for 2021, TB cases were down 18% which on the surface seems encouraging but the reason for the decrease is less testing and less active case finding meaning that more people are living with the disease instead of receiving treatment [61]. The ...
of chronic illness not only on the affected individual but also on family members, friends and carers’. It also acknowledges the centrality of subjective perceptions and appraisals: ‘for each individual with chronic illness, to live well takes on a unique and equally important personal meaning, ...
Most farms continue to be business owned and operated within one family, meaning work, home, and family roles are often blurred [1]. Tensions can exist between different family members working on the farm, which can be exacerbated by a lack of clear succession planning [1, 11]. The farm ...