08 Feb 2012
| by Chris Lancelot
their best to help the patients while being obstructed by managers with their imposed, dysfunctional systems....their systems to make them cost-effective and fit for purpose. Instead, they expect others to adopt time-consuming workarounds.
Take Choose and Book: a new system which often didn't fit properly on existing hospital ...
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It was introduced piecemeal. It constantly changed its nature - always unhelpful when bedding in new systems ...
18 Jan 2012
| by Susie Sell
transform the NHS into a US-style system, GP leaders fear....that incentivise integration would move the NHS towards a US system with large commercial companies taking control ...
01 Feb 2012
| by Mary Selby
Last week, I told Mrs Anxious that snot is a sign of good health and a robust immune system and she
25 Nov 2011
of the NHS's system for approving and recommending drugs.
13 Feb 2012
| by Stephen Robinson
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Long-term vitamin D insufficiency raises the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Deficiency ...
do, however, take the opportunity of doing a cardiovascular health check then raise the question ...
26 May 2011
If not, it's not alone, because this week GP reveals exclusively that just five of 120 PCTs hold up-to-date information on all forms of tobacco use, despite NICE requiring it.
Smokeless tobacco use is highly addictive and linked to both oral cancer and cardiovascular disease.
PCTs paying ...
There comes a point in everyone's life when, frankly, shuffling off this mortal coil is not statistically unreasonable. Mr Spleen hit his 20 per cent cardiovascular risk around 1980, which just goes to show that there are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Nevertheless, when a note appears to telephone ...
are facing funding threats, as the closure of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society earlier this month ...
27 Oct 2011
. For these individuals, negotiating the system can be baffling. Most may have fantastic experiences of the individual components of their care but, as a whole, their 'journey' through the system may feel confused, haphazard ...
-word of the moment in the NHS. It is effectively generalism on a system-wide scale - an attempt to provide holistic ...