A great deal of effort goes into creating organizational charts and debating whom to put in charge; correspondingly less effort is invested in developing the governance structure, with the choice of governance mechanisms often depending on "leading practices" rather than the SSO's specific oversight ...
Its aim was to reduce inequalities in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality through improved reach of primary prevention programmes. Initially targeted at five pilots in the most deprived areas of Scotland, it provided incentives for general practices within those pilot sites to develop reach and ...
In 2020 and this year, face mask guidelines in the UK shifted frequently. England eased its rules earlier, but Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland mostly kept theirs. Now, England brings back face masks in lots of indoor places, like shops, shopping centres, and on public transport. But ...
The use of mortars and plasters has been widespread in many cultures for thousands of years and these materials are found in the vast majority of built cultural heritage. They play a crucial role in the preservation of immovable heritage and must be taken into great consideration when conserving...
Both aspects of infrastructure, in turn, need to be differentiated from the purposive content of the interactions and practices they enable. A video consultation, for example, relies on infrastructure to provide its conditions of possibility, but the consultation itself also has its sui generis ...
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planning [1,2,3,4]. Thus, health services provision to populations in rural areas can be seen as a case ofmarket failure; investment costs are too high and expected profits too low to attract private capital [5,6]. In recent decades, however, many Western health care systems have ...
27,28 Furthermore, although most members of the general public may regard the pharmacist as a healthcare provider, many patients still prefer to discuss issues concerning medication with their physicians.29, 30, 31 Non-dispensing pharmacists, based in the GP's office, were able to build their...
many other changes to clinical pathways and practices [25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35]. While the scale and speed of response to the pandemic has been impressive, an important risk is that some efforts may unhelpfully reproduce some of the challenges previously identified in the field ...
Her thoughts serve to present a youth view and a mental health perspective on the value of an urban ‘nature place’ in her northern UK city. And while not representative of all our participants, it points to a more positive, and certainly more nuanced, youth-nature relationship than many ...