How do NHS general hospitals in England deal with patients with alcohol-related problems? A questionnaire survey. Alcohol Alcohol 2005;40:409-12.Owens L, Gilmore IT, Pirmohamed M. How do NHS general hospitals in England deal with patients with alcohol-related problems? A questionnaire survey. ...
Late one March evening, a few days before Boris Johnson would tell the over-70s to isolate themselves, James Hepburn sat down with a beer in front of his computer for a Skype catch-up with his best mate, Matt. The pair, both in their 40s, have been going on holiday for years, their...
but of a simpler sort: turning the NHS from what it has become—a sickness service—into what its name promises—a health service. That will mean spending more money. But to spend it productively requires a shift in focus: away from hospitals to the community, from treatment to prevention,...
Like many national audit programmes, SSNAP has historically focused on acute and hospital-based care [10]. However, in line with a move over the last decade by the National Health Service (NHS) to develop community-based healthcare as prioritised in the NHS Long Term Plan, audit programmes ...
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2022/07/nhs-sets-out-long-covid-action-plan-for-thousands-of-people-with-persistent-symptom/ 105. Nundy S, Patel KK. Hospital-at-home to support COVID-19 surge—time to bring down the walls? JAMA Health Forum. 2020;1(5):e200504. doi:10.1001...
Commenting on the potential role of pharma in creating health, Lord Nigel Crisp, former chief executive of NHS England, and author of the recently launched, Health in made at home, hospitals are for repairs, said, “The NHS can’t by itself deal with many of today’s major health pr...
many believe that the only alternative to voluntary, market-based health insurance is a single-payer system financed by tax revenues, when there are a number of options. [translate aMostof the NHS’s dreary features—the rundown hospitals, the chronic shortages of specialists in every field...
‘Overseas Visitors’ hold exactly the same NHS card as any other NHS patient. This lack of specification of the holder’s entitlement beyond primary and emergency care is a remainder of the system’s universalistic origins and makes it difficult for hospitals to comply with their legal ...
and in one case the dispute has become so intense that the health secretary has been called in to make a judgment.One of several changes proposed by Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is to close its consultant led obstetrics department at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury and replace it...
However, a 2009 report by the National Audit Office (NAO) on Healthcare Associated Infections in Hospitals in England found that, although twenty nine per cent of hospital trusts had managed to reduce CDI by over 50 per cent, 19 per cent of trusts were found to have had an increase [35...