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Introducing a day-case arthroplasty pathway significantly reduces overall length of stay
Aims: Day-case arthroplasty is gaining popularity in Europe. We report outcomes from the first 12 months following implementation of a day-case pathway for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) in an NHS hospital ...
Paul Saunders +5 more
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Fixing the NHS: NHS is undermanaged, but overadministered [PDF]
EDITOR—The NHS is indeed undermanaged, and even many of those managers have no formal management qualification.1 So why do so many clinicians …
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Background: The English NHS faces financial pressures that may render the growth rates of elective admissions seen between 2001/2 and 2011/12 unsustainable.
Martin Chalkley +7 more
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Aim: This audit aimed to investigate whether COVID-19 had any impact on the incidence and type of ocular motility defects in patients presenting to Birmingham Midland Eye Centre (BMEC) Emergency Department (ED) during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 ...
Jessica Edwards +2 more
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An alternative for the NHS [PDF]
The publication of Health 2000,1 the Labour party's document on health and health services in Britain, indicates the outlines of an alternative health policy. Published on the same day that the government announced further substantial changes to London's hospital services resulting from the operation of the internal market, the document rejects the use
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Individuals and organisations cannot plan for the truly extraordinary. When a once in a millennium event occurs there is a high chance that people will react badly and make mistakes. The deliberate killing and injuring of children in a British hospital by nurse Beverley Allitt was just such an event,1 and many mistakes have been made in the aftermath.
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Seven years ago we collected 20 examples of secrecy surrounding health and the NHS in Britain.1 This month we repeated the exercise, and in three days we have discovered 30 examples. We will be pleased to hear of more. (1) Paragraph 330 of the Terms and Conditions of Service for Hospital Medical and Dental Staff says that “A practitioner shall be free,
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We believe, and refuse to be dissuaded, that the National Health Service, with its moral intent, commitment to equity, and store of knowledge, has the inherent capability to become the greatest healthcare system of any nation. Yet, lately, it seems like a boxer on the ropes, not the champion it should be.
Donald M, Berwick, Sheila, Leatherman
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Background: Decommissioning – defined as the planned process of removing, reducing or replacing health-care services – is an important component of current reforms in the NHS.
Iestyn Williams +5 more
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Background: There is compelling evidence to suggest that some (or even many) NHS staff feel unable to speak up, and that even when they do, their organisation may respond inappropriately.
Russell Mannion +6 more
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