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The Freeman Hospital, now entering its fourth year as a trust, is coming to grips with the unpalatable realisation that a hospital's geographical accessibility to patients seems to count more than whether the treatment it offers is good value for money or of better quality.No one at the ...
The NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) is a flagship NHS system. It is used by over 1,100 NHS organisations and their patients to choose, book and change over 70,000 referral appointment requests every working day. Handling outpatient hospital appointments, e-RS provides real-time information ...
GP recruitment and retention: a qualitative analysis of doctors' comments about training for and working in general practice. BACKGROUND AND AIMS: General practice in the UK is experiencing difficulty with medical staff recruitment and retention, with reduced numbers choosing care... Evans, J,Lambert...
Exploring how to measure patients' experience of care in hospital to improve services With the new requirement that patients' experience of care be measured as part of the drive to improve quality across the NHS, acute trusts face the challenge of choosing from a potentially dizzying array of op...
“With NHS waiting lists at record levels, a growing number of people are looking for alternatives and choosing to use the private sector rather than risk prolonged waits and potentially seeing their health deteriorate. “The number of people using private medical insurance, or opting to ‘self-...
Both of the main political parties are relying on more people choosing to pay for private care to bring down waiting times and free up the NHS. A report in The Times said that only 28 NHS hospitals currently allow patients to manage appointments via the app, althoug...
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• women choosing to discharge themselves because of long delays in assessments • units lacking space, facilities and occasionally potentially life-saving equipment • women experiencing discrimination because of their ethnic background Failings are 'not isolated' ...
The factor with the greatest correlation to patients not achieving the faster diagnostic standard was that the hospital or healthcare provider was choosing primarily to communicate with the patient by the Royal Mail. This meant that patients were less likely to achieve optimal diagnostic standard i...