In April 2014 the UK government launched the ‘NHS Visitor and Migrant Cost Recovery Programme Implementation Plan’ which set out a series of policy changes to recoup costs from ‘chargeable’ (largely non-UK born) patients. In England, approximately 75% of tuberculosis (TB) cases occur in pe...
17 National Audit Office/Audit Commission, Financial Management in the NHS: NHS (England) Summarised Accounts 2003-04, June 2005, p. 5. 20 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN THE NHS part two 2.20 In 2004-05, Primary Care Trusts reported receiving a total of £204 million of support, either from ...
BBC News also included a response from Professor Erika Denton, national medical director for transformation at NHS England. She stated that EPRs represent an improvement over paper and patchwork systems and have been shown to improve safety and care for patients. “However, like any system, it’...
To work with a psychological therapies service to implement a recovery plan, as required by a government body, aimed at improving patient outcomes (effectiveness) and decreasing practitioner variability (equity). A case-study utilizing components of a learning health system, including nationally ...
In 2018, the Care Quality Commission reported that over half the 4,400 mental health inpatient rehabilitation beds in England were provided by the independent sector. They raised concerns that the length of stay and cost of independent sector care was double that of the NHS and that their ...
572 said they or someone in their household needed healthcare since 23rd March 2020 for a reason other than suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and received all or some of the healthcare they needed [1] An Ipsos MORI poll of 2,000 adults...
2024, was added to the NHS Supply Chain, making it significantly easier for NHS hospitals in England and Wales to purchase. The NHS Supply Chain is a national body which manages the sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products to the NHS and healthcare organizations in England and ...
The mental health of healthcare professionals is reaching a breaking point, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated current mental health issues to unprecedented levels. Whilst some research has been carried out on the barriers that doctors face when s
With interest rates set to go up from the Bank of England after the next election, as the recovery gathers speed in the UK, these are important questions, but the question over PFI arguably is as much for the Shadow Chancellor of Exchequer as much as the Shadow Secretary of State for Hea...
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