Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2020/21 update
This paper measures NHS England ' s productivity in 2020/21, covering the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This presented some challenges to how CHE calculated and interpreted their measure of productivity growth. The problems of accurately capturing the impact of the pandemic on both NHS inputs and outputs means that they would expect to find a negative growth in NHS productivity between 2019/20 and 2020/21 and this was found to be the case. It found that NHS productivity fell by around 24 per cent, on account of both a substantial decrease in outputs (16.05 per cent) and an increase in inputs (10.49 per cent...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
England ’s National Health Service to Offer Widespread Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing for Children and Babies
Research in the UK and US into how rapid WGS can prevent deaths and improve outcomes for kids with rare genetic diseases may lead to more genetic testing based in local clinical laboratories Genetic scientists with the National Health Service (NHS) in England have embarked on an ambitious plan to offer rapid whole genome sequencing […]
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Source: Dark Daily - March 13, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: International Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing 100000 Genomes Project AJHG Amanda Pritchard American Journal of Human Genetics anatomic pathology Christ Source Type: news
NHS prescription charges from 1 April 2023
The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 ( ‘the Amendment Regulations’) have been laid before Parliament to increase certain National Health Service charges in England from 1 April 2023. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - March 13, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
