NHS Health Check uptake rates also varied by geographical region, with the highest uptake in Birmingham, Manchester, and Newcastle regions (all above 40%), with the lowest uptake observed in Scotland (8.2%). Fig. 3 Summary of NHS Health Check in UK Biobank participants. A Overall summaries ...
The NHS general dental services (GDS) contract introduced in England and Wales in 2006 meant that non-exempt patients were required to pay one of four PDCs based on the complexity of their treatment (Table 1). However, the PDC applicable in England and Wales was not the same. In Scotland,...
BBC News – Pregnancy clinical negligence case payouts top £70m– A Freedom of Information request showed NHS Health Scotland closed 30 cases between January 2009 and June 2011. NHS centre run by private firm charges patients for treatment – Sheffield – Local News – Postcode Gazette– The ...
NHS organisations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are outside of this agreement. All NHS organisations in these regions are eligible to participate in individual volume licensing arrangements set up between the OGC and Microsoft. Some already have and if you need to understand the ...
thepublicationoftheNationalPerformanceFramework(NPF)andSingleOutcomeAgreements(SOAs).However,manylonger-termoutcomes(e.g.reducinginequalities)aredifficulttoachieveandrequirearangeoforganisationstoworktogethertorealisethem.NHSHealthScotlandhascreatedresources(outcomesframeworks(http:\/\/.healthscotland...
Smith A, Christie P, Stari T, Kavanagh K, Robertson C, Reilly J, Gould I, MacKenzie F, Masterton R: The value of nasal swabbing versus full body screening or clinical risk assessment to detect MRSA colonisation at admission to hospital (NHS Scotland MRSA screening pathfinder programme: final...
Macaskill S, Bauld L, Eadie D, Tappin D: Smoking Cessation Support in Pregnancy in Scotland. 2008, Glasgow, http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/2665.aspx. Google Scholar NICE: Quitting smoking in pregnancy and following childbirth. NICE Public Health Guid. 2010, 26: 1-58. Google Schol...
Nevertheless "Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all operate funding formulae which include a specific allowance for rurality" [20]. Asthana and Gibson [21] recently demonstrated that the pattern of PCT financial deficits "implies that NHS funding provides insufficient resources for rural areas, ...
Institute for Social Marketing and U.K. Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland Linda Bauld Corresponding author Correspondence toLinda Bauld. Additional information Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. ...
Recently, Libby and collaborators [14] reported a significant 10% reduction in CRC mortality among invited individuals invited for screening as part of the UK CRC screening pilot studies in Scotland (2000–2007, three biennial rounds of invitation) when compared to a cohort of uninvited controls ...