After the death of a patient in Cambridgeshire, England, from an opiates overdose at the hands of a doctor from Germany doing an out-of-hours session, the process was reviewed. In Great Britain, emphasis is now on assessing the doctor's clinical experience.Law, Donald...
They will include arrangements that will allow patients to make contact with an out of hours service with a single phone call. Initiatives are also planned to help GPs in rural areas who have been unable to benefit from the development of cooperatives. An extra 540 000 is being provided to ...
Miss Campbell died of septicaemia in 2005, which was not diagnosed by any of the eight doctors she consulted as her condition worsened. Each separate call she made to the service used by primary care trusts which was responsible for out-of-hours care was treated as a fresh case, which ...
THE GP out-of-hours service in Belfast is under serious strain amid a surge in Covid cases and low staffing levels. The Irish News understands that no doctors have been available for long periods over several weekends. Staffing pressures have also hit other out-of-hours...
Objectives—To describe the relationship between patient satisfaction with out of hours care provided by deputising and practice doctors in four urban areas in England and characteristics of the service provided and patients, the care given, and health outcomes. Setting—Fourteen general practices in ...
Night visit rates vary widely between areas, practices and individual doctors, for reasons which remain largely unexplained. There is evidence that levels of provision of out-of-hours care have risen considerably, but the wide variation between areas, and differences between studies in terms of ...
Doctors working for GPs' out of hours services need to be vetted more thoroughly to ensure that patients are treated safely and effectively, the NHS watchdog has said, after finding that one provider failed to scrutinise closely enough t... Z Kmietowicz - 《Bmj British Medical Journal》 被...
Talks stall on GPs' out of hours work change to doctors' terms of service to allow them to transfer out of hours responsibility to another local general practitioner; changes to the rules that would allow family health services authorities to use their cash limited funds to... Beecham,L. -...
Out-of-hours GPs felt left alone on occasion, unable to access daytime services and not knowing who to call for advice. Information hand-over systems from in-hours to out-of-hours with regard to palliative care were felt to be inadequate. Out-of-hours doctors interviewed felt left out of...
The results are compared with a study of deputising services, and it is concluded that a partnership covering its own out-of-hours calls can provide a more personal service and appears to make fewer demands on NHS resources. 关键词: Humans Asthma Emergency Service, Hospital Primary Health Care...