Although taxation is arguably the most efficient funding mechanism, NHS expenditure is a political choice, say Anita Charlesworth and Karen Bloor In his landmark 1942 report, William Beveridge said that a comprehensive health service would "diminish disease by prevention and cure"1 and that costs ...
Although taxation is arguably the most efficient funding mechanism, NHS expenditure is a political choice, say Anita Charlesworth and Karen Bloor In his landmark 1942 report, William Beveridge said that a comprehensive health service would "diminish disease by prevention and cure"1 and that costs wo...
However more experienced surgeons had more concerns over usability, complexity and how much technical prowess is needed to navigate such tools. Despite admitting these learning tools may be useful, they preferred to stay with their existing strategies. I think it would take me longer to learn how...
“I don’t feel just continuing looking at this is going to bring too much value, but I feel that looking at a different group of patients, say patients admitted like after a week, that would be more helpful to me. […] just repeating the same admissions audit I just felt is not th...
International organisations have called to increase young people’s involvement in healthcare and health policy development. We currently lack effective methods for facilitating meaningful engagement by young people in health-related decision-making. The
The NHS equivalent of the LA. Sometime last year, they were turned into ICBs - Integrated Care Boards. If you want to apply for NHS CHC funding, the ICB makes the decisions and administers the CHC funding, if you are successful. It’s not much better than dealing with a LA reall...
Recent technological advances have made new service models possible, such as a commercially driven “doctor-in-your-pocket” video consultation service accessible via a smartphone app (which, controversially, bypasses much of the traditional NHS infrastructure) [11]. The Critical Social Science of ...
A systematic search and review of the peer-reviewed literature on CoPs in the healthcare sector has identified that that there is much diversity in how and why they are established. They vary in composition, intended purpose, and means by which members exchange information and knowledge. Some Co...
Return on Investment (ROI), whereby the ratio of costs to benefits is assessed, is encouraged in-order to justify the value of Quality Improvement (QI) programmes. We previously performed a literature review to develop a ROI conceptual framework for QI p
expanded to have six young partners at the time of this paper. For young people who might not have had as much experience with partnerships in research, there could be opportunities for mentorship. For example, reflections from the READYorNot™ BBD Project identified there could be a ‘buddy...