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Health Services Accessibility/organization & administration , Mental Health Services/organization & administration , Psychotherapy/organization & administration , State Medicine/organization & administration , England , Health Services Needs and Demand/organization & administration , Humans , WorkforceSubject(s)
Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/standards , Materials Management, Hospital/organization & administration , Contract Services/economics , Contract Services/organization & administration , Contract Services/trends , Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/economics , Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/trends , Humans , Materials Management, Hospital/economics , Materials Management, Hospital/trends , Organizational Case Studies , State Medicine , United KingdomSubject(s)
Biomedical Technology/organization & administration , Contract Services/organization & administration , Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/standards , Materials Management, Hospital/organization & administration , Biomedical Technology/economics , Biomedical Technology/trends , Contract Services/economics , Contract Services/trends , England , Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/economics , Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/trends , Humans , Materials Management, Hospital/economics , Materials Management, Hospital/trends , Organizational Case Studies , State Medicine/economics , State Medicine/trendsSubject(s)
General Practice/organization & administration , Primary Health Care/organization & administration , Quality Assurance, Health Care/organization & administration , State Medicine/organization & administration , Efficiency, Organizational , General Practice/economics , General Practice/trends , Humans , Primary Health Care/economics , Primary Health Care/trends , Quality Assurance, Health Care/economics , Quality Assurance, Health Care/trends , State Medicine/economics , State Medicine/trends , United KingdomSubject(s)
Activities of Daily Living , Patient Discharge , Rehabilitation , Community Health Services , Hospitals, Public , Humans , Red Cross , United KingdomABSTRACT
Sixty per cent of men and 50 per cent of women in the UK could be obese by 2050. The government wants to reduce the number of obese and overweight children by 2020. Obesity management is far less embedded in general healthcare than smoking cessation.
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Health Promotion , Obesity/prevention & control , Humans , Obesity/epidemiology , State Medicine , United Kingdom/epidemiologyABSTRACT
There are an estimated 600,000 people in the UK with dementia. This is expected to double in 30 years. Lack of knowledge among primary care professionals and patients' complex needs means the condition often goes unmanaged in the community. Increasing understanding, a long awaited strategy and inclusion in the operating framework means dementia may have "reached its moment in the sun".
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Dementia/therapy , Health Planning , Health Services Needs and Demand , Caregivers , Dementia/economics , Dementia/epidemiology , Humans , Social Support , United Kingdom/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Up to 500,00 people could have undiagnosed diabetes in England. As many as one in two people who have diabetes may not be coded properly under payment by results. Children born to women who have diabetes have five times the average still birth rate.
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diagnosis , Feeding Behavior , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/classification , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology , Early Diagnosis , England/epidemiology , Female , Forms and Records Control/standards , Humans , Insurance Claim Reporting , Male , Pregnancy , Risk Reduction Behavior , Stillbirth/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Cancer has been a government health priority since the early 1990s. Spending on cancer could be at the expense of other needs, such as palliative care. The public lacks clear information about primary care trust spending decisions.
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Health Priorities , Neoplasms , Decision Making, Organizational , Health Policy , Hospitals, Public/economics , Humans , State Medicine , United KingdomABSTRACT
The number of people with HIV is growing by 10 per cent a year. "Clinical inertia" may be delaying much-needed change to HIV/AIDS services, but experts are divided over whether they should be shifted into the community. Patients want services that are designed to fit around their lives.
