How Safe Will Your Medical Records Be Online? Davis Raises Spectre of WikiLeaks over Plan to Put NHS Data on WebByline: Daniel Martin Whitehall CorrespondentDaily Mail (London)
My research suggests that costs to the NHS could be significantly reduced. One ofmy studiesindicates that if half of England's5 million smokersswitched to e-cigarettes or heated tobacco, the NHS would save more than £500 million a year. The shift away from cigarettes would lead to a decre...
heart disease and cancer. And reducing the number of people with these chronic conditions would lead to a significant decrease in healthcare spending—which has beensteadily risingin real terms since the NHS was founded.
The NHS should be a leader in health research: it's vast, well regarded by the public, and it's starting to shake off its reputation for botched IT projects as it aims for more substantial tech-led transformation. And it's very good at recording all sorts of data, from medical...
Alongside £2.4bn in additional funding, the new NHS workforce plan to fix staffing shortfalls in the service also includes consulting with the General Medical Council and medical schools to offer a shorter, four-year medical degree.
AOKpass offers to provide "a digitally authenticated, secure and portable copy of your medical records." After receiving test results from their healthcare provider, AOKpass users will be able to manually enter their information, which is then secured by AOKpass and available for use while travel...
For centuries, physicians have sworn the Hippocratic oath, to keep secret “whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients”. But hundreds of millions of people now turn to the web each day to allay their medical worries, which range from the mundane to the grave. Despite the illusio...
Context matters for the successful implementation of medical interventions, but its role remains surprisingly understudied. Against the backdrop of antimicrobial resistance, a global health priority, we investigated the introduction of a rapid diagnostic
The NHS has pledged toeliminate cervical cancerin England by 2040. This will be achieved by amping up current vaccination and screening programs. Ad While this goal may seem unrealistic or even impossible, there are many reasons to believe it can be achieved in the timeframe NHS England boss ...
In terms of limitations, as explained before, an online survey was distributed by email by SEMICYUC to all ICU medical directors with instructions to either complete it if they were the person responsible for the RRS or to deliver it to the responsible professional in charge of the RRS. Even...