Participants highlighted that EHR interoperability in the NHS does not meet patient needs and expectations. While patients’ understanding of the concept of EHR interoperability was mixed, most were able to des
telling them to do the regular trauma stuff and he’d be along in a minute. He obviously got delayed, so we spent nearly an hour in a room with two doctors who knew they were out of their depth making small talk. We filled in the questionnaire, that they’d never seen before, talki...
Chair: “this is a programme in which we have invested a great deal, of time and thought in its development, we would only do this if we believed it was absolutely critical in the interests of patients, it was something that would give us the information the intelligence that we need to...
The Royal Colleges specify how services are to be provided and set requirements for training doctors. These cover the size of catchment populations for particular service areas; the required throughput of patients; staffing patterns; and inter-professional linkages. As a result, Royal College guidance...
The latest cunning plan out of the NHS high command / coalition government is for Britains best and brightest doctors and consultants to set-up 'NHS' hospitals abroad at huge tax payer expense to treat foreign patients under the illusion that this will generate profits that will be reinvested ...
While Mr Hunt is taking all the heat right now, for his part in writing Direct Democracy and its proposals to privatise health – set against the current health reforms and restructuring of junior doctors contracts – we should perhaps also look to Mr Gove co-author, and ask to better unde...
Yet we have a shortage of nurses and doctors and other medical staff. Why? Surely, it must be so obvious to Number 10 that there are too many administrators who push paper rather than treat patients? And that the answer is to drastically cut the number of paper pushers in favour of ...
Apparently the 12.4% they are asking, the same as Scottish Junior Doctors have been offered and who don’t have eye watering tuition fee debts to pay back, is too much for English Junior Doctors to be given. Yet your party continues to give Scotland 12 billion of English taxes every year...
Yesterday I discussed the state of the GP service with some local doctors. They told me they are seeing substantially more patients now than just before the pandemic struck, as there has been a surge in demand. They see the majority of patients face to face. Some patients agree a remote ...
occasion he was even ordered by a strategic health authority boss, now a senior NHS official, to take hospitals off “red alert†status – meaning that they were too full to take any more patients – because of a delicate budget meeting taking place at the time...