Returning NHS waiting times to 18 weeks for routine treatment: the scale of the challenge pre-Covid-19
Health Foundation - Returning to ‘normal’ levels of activity is expected to take some time and, even before Covid-19, there were substantial challenges with waiting times. As the NHS looks to start to recover services, this long read looks at the context in which planned treatment will recommence. Specifically, it looks at what would have been needed – if the NHS were operating within a ‘business as usual model’ – to return to delivering the standard of 92 per cent of patients being treated within 18 weeks, given the waiting lists and waiting times backlog that had built up by January 2020.Long rea...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 26, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
The Expendables
Are we being thrown to the wolves? Related items fromOnMedica GP waiting times: learning from the past GP trainees to get fully-funded personal indemnity NHS vacancies in England rise to more than 105,000 full-time posts 'Urgent investment needed for GP Premises' Are PCNs what we all imagined? (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - March 23, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Why Peak Viral Load makes temperature screening alone insufficient for COVID-19
By TONY ESTRELLA
And how South Korea and Taiwan’s approach to diagnosis and tracking is leading to positive results
By now, the sight of people wearing surgical masks, flinching at the sights and sounds of someone coughing or sneezing, governments restricting large gatherings, and sports leagues suspending or cancelling matches is familiar across the world.
Even though this newest coronavirus we now call COVID-19 is not the deadliest disease as measured by daily deaths, the concern over the outbreak is forcing urgent actions.
Daily deaths from COVID-19 compared to other diseases. Source: informationisbeautifu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Time Really Can Be Money
By KIM BELLARD
If you are not an IKEA
fan, or haven’t been spending any time in Dubai, you may have missed the
chain’s marketing campaign to help promote its second store in the area.
Titled “Buy With Your Time,” customers got store credits for how long
they spent getting to the store.
Gosh, that’s something
that should make any self-respecting critic of the U.S. healthcare system perk
up. Count me as intrigued.
The campaign involved
checking the customer’s Google Maps’ Trip tab to determine how long it took
them to get to the store. IKEA benchmarke...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Buy With Your Time Ikea Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Access to child and adolescent mental health services in 2019
This report examines access to specialist services, waiting times for treatment, and provision for the most vulnerable children in England.The research is based on new data obtained using freedom of information requests to mental health providers and local authorities over the course of a year. It looks at the proportion of referrals to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) that are rejected, and waiting times to assessment and treatment for accepted referrals. It also describes mental health provision for certain groups of vulnerable young people: those with conduct disorder or difficulties, in contact with ...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 9, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Mental health policy in England
House of Commons Library -Around one in four people in the UK suffer from a mental health problem each year. The NHS has set out that it wants to achieve “parity of esteem” between mental and physical health, in terms of access to services, quality of care and allocation of resources. This briefing looks at the current mental health strategy, reform of the Mental Health Act, waiting times and the use of force in mental health settings.BriefingHouse of Commons Library - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 6, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Through the looking glass of integrated care
Luke Koupparis looks at whether the latest reorganisation can magically solve the NHS demand problems Related items fromOnMedica CQC's State of Care report finds standards improving but warns of pressures GP waiting times: learning from the past Doctors call on politicians to invest in the NHS Are PCNs what we all imagined? Health Secretary sets out plans for NHS workforce (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - December 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
General election 2019 polling for the Health Foundation: public perceptions of the NHS and social care
The Health Foundation -This Ipsos MORI survey was commissioned by the Health Foundation for the 2019 General Election. It suggests that people are willing to pay more tax to maintain and improve health and social care. The public also highlighted a lack of investment in the NHS and long waiting times as the top issues facing the health service, followed by an insufficient and overworked workforce.ReportThe Health Foundation - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 5, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: General Election 2019 Patient involvement, experience and feedback Social care Source Type: blogs
National, Universal Living Donor Kidney Registry and At-Home Living Donor Testing Kit: Interview with David Fleming, President and CEO of DLA
The Fresenius Medical Care Foundation
(FMCF), which is the nonprofit arm of Fresenius Medical Care North America
(FMCNA), has teamed up with Donate Life America
(DLA), another non-profit, to create a universal living donor kidney registry
and at-home living donor testing kits.
Approximately 30 million people in the United
States are affected by kidney disease, with another person being added to the
kidney transplant waiting list every ten minutes. At present, the majority of
kidney transplants are possible because of deceased donors, but there is a
shortage of such donors leading to increased wait times for those n...
Source: Medgadget - December 2, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Urology Source Type: blogs
NHS performance and waiting times: priorities for the next government
Health Foundation - This long read explores how the NHS in England is performing and sets out priorities for the next government. It calls for sustained investment in the NHS and social care to reverse lengthening waits. This will include filling existing staff vacancies and growing the workforce, investment in buildings and equipment, and stabilising the social care sector.Report (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 21, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: General Election 2019 NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Is IVF treatment stressful?
This depends on two important variables - the patient , and the clinic.All patients who go through an IVF cycle are anxious , because they are concerned whether their cycle will work or not. They aren't sure whether it will work the first time, or how many cycles they'll have to do , because they know that the success rate of IVF is not 100%. This uncertainty and anxiety obviously makes each cycle stressful . This is especially true of the two week waiting ( 2ww) period, because no one knows what's happening to the embryo which has been transferred into the uterus.However, those patients who are well informed , and wh...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - October 4, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Top 5 Visitor Management Systems for Medium Business
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Visitors have been gracing the premises of businesses with high expectations for centuries. But with the advent of technology, it has now become imperative for businesses to manage visitors’ expectations, as well as visitors themselves. Visitor management has been a crucial part of running any business, and deploying manual comprehensive measures to meet the standards of visitor management can only help ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: chanakyakyatham Tags: productivity tips visitor management visitor management system. visitor management software Source Type: blogs
Waiting Room Medicine
Dr Mike Cadogan Waiting Room Medicine
With exponential Emergency Department over-crowding and spiraling waiting times, the Utopian College has produced a series of guidelines to assist fondling members. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 20, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Medical Humour UCEM code yellow Waiting Room waiting room medicine Source Type: blogs
Asthma Pocket Tech In The Fighting Ring: AioCare Versus Smart Peak Flow
What a game, ladies and gentlemen! In the red corner, the Smart Peak Flow and in the blue, the AioCare. Both are promising pocketable devices geared towards helping patients with breathing difficulties. They will be facing each other in The Medical Futurist’s fighting ring, comparing aspects such as their reliability, features, design and price point, but just like in Highlander, only one asthma tech can remain standing. Which one will it be?
Respiratory conditions need to be taken down
The diseases pulmonologists attempt to fight
are among the most common conditions in the modern world. According to WHO estimates,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 18, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers asthma device digital digital health future gadgets Health 2.0 health tracker Innovation medical medical device peak flow pulmonology respiratory smart spirometer technology Source Type: blogs
