Health Systems: Research & Counselling

Cameron makes radical changes to NHS management

Around 80 billion pounds will be given to family GPS in a new government plan that will aim to improve relationships between patients and those working locum jobs for doctors. Many thousands of managerial jobs in the UK health service are likely to be lost as a result of these plans. The government currently fund primary care trusts to pay for their patients in their area but under new plans GPS will be responsible for paying the hospital directly More

The benefits of the French health care system

The health care system in France has often been used to counter campaigns to introduce a universal health care system in the United States. Often, social conservatives have used France as an example of how America should steer clear of ’socialized medicine'and have often warned of France’s supposedly ’long waiting lists'and ’terrible'quality of care and care fees advice.

The truth is that the French system offers a wide level of choice for patients, with extensive general practitioners and specialists More

Trafford Healthcare NHS ties up with Intersystems

The handshake between IT and Medical fraternity has gained momentum not only in the gadgets and first aid supplies that the doctors use for their diagnosis, but now it’s even the information of the patient that is being used as a diagnostic tool by doctors and IT is helping the Medical fraternity in collection and analysis of this data.

There has been a recent announcement by Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust that they have joined hands with Intersystem, an IT firm, More

India provides the worst end-of-life heath care

While India is a country noted for its poor quality of life in comparison to western countries, it also scores very poorly on the quality of care available for patients suffering from terminal illnesses. New figures from the Economic Intelligence Unit, which measures the quality of ‘end-of-life care’ in 40 countries, ranked India at the bottom, below numerous developing nations. Countries such as Uganda, one of the most violent, corrupt countries in the world, scored higher than India on this More

An Introduction To Dentistry

Dentistry is not new, evidence having been found as far back as the Neolithic period in Pakistan and drilled teeth as old as 7000 BC being found in the Indus Valley. Texts dating back to around 5000 BC refer to a ‘tooth worm’ causing decayed teeth, a belief that persisted for many hundreds of years since then. Hippocrates, the Greek ‘Father of Medicine’ described the sequence of teeth erupting, undertook extraction and attempted to treat fractured jaws and the More

Is obesity hereditary?

French researchers have recently found that the type of food that obese parents eat that lead to their weight gain can lead to their children being obese too. Therefore the researchers claim that obesity is hereditary even though the weight gain is caused by the environment we are in, eg what foods are available to us and what foods we eat. The researchers have found that people in contries with obesity problems eat more omega-6 fatty acids and less omega-3 More

£1.7 billion set aside for NHS reform

The English NHS has saved almost £1.7 billion this year for new policy changes, which is over seven times the amount it intends to save on its own management strategies.

Sir David Nicholson, the boss for the NHS said that the money would help to ’kick-start'this new transformation. The new funding will initiate the start of a gradual process where GPs and people working locum doctor jobs will gain greater control over budgets and the bureaucracy of NHS management will More

Elderly Britons face large repatriation bills when travelling abroad

The UK Foreign Office has found that many elderly Britons travelling to other countries have to endure costly treatment and extortionate repatriation bills when they fall ill. The report, which is entitled ’British Behaviour Abroad’, includes cases from the twelve month period April 2009 to March 2010. The Association of British Insurers stated that the final medical bills for such patients amounted to around £274 million for 2009.

A total of 5,930 deaths were reported for British citizens abroad, which More