Case management for elderly people in the community
Tags: MEDICAL care costs; GREAT Britain. National Health Service; PUBLIC health -- Great Britain; EDITORIALS; OLDER people -- Medical care; HOSPITAL care
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The author reflects on the question of whether patients in Great Britain should be able to pay top-up fees to receive the treatments that they want. He suggests that they should because the country's National Health Service will not be able to afford all of the medical care that people want or...
- Should we allow top-up care? // Nursing Standard;10/22/2008, Vol. 23 Issue 7, p1
The author reflects on the top-up payment in Great Britain that ban patients who can independently pay for drug from receiving National Health Service (NHS) care. She relates the issues faced by NHS including different treatment for two patients based not on need but the ability to pay. She...
- Framework for action. Gray, jean // Nursing Standard;5/27/2009, Vol. 23 Issue 38, p1
The article reflects upon alcohol abuse and the need to identify, prevent and treat problems related to alcohol. The author explores the increase in alcohol-related problems in Great Britain, the cost to the British National Health Service (NHS) of health problems related to alcohol abuse, and...
- Should patients be able to pay top-up fees to receive the treatment they want? Bloor, Karen // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);5/17/2008, Vol. 336 Issue 7653, p1105
The author reflects on the question of whether patients in Great Britain should be able to pay top-up fees to receive the treatments that they want. She suggests that they should not because if they do it will undermine Great Britain's National Health Service. She argues that the inevitable...
- STANDARD LIFE. Allen, Daniel // Nursing Standard;12/17/2008, Vol. 23 Issue 15-17, p26
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- A matter of public knowledge. Kinnair, Donna // Nursing Management - UK;Jul2010, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p3
The author addresses the restructuring of the British National Health Service (NHS). She considers the call of the government to debate over budgetary cuts to the services. She emphasizes the need for the public to be aware of the expenditures of healthcare services. She comments on the role of...
- The NHS celebrates its diamond anniversary. Sturdy, Deborah // Nursing Older People;Feb2008, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p9
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Reports on the warning of the British government's review of long-term health care trends author Derek Wanless on replicating Scotland's proposed system of free care for elderly National Health Service patients. Reason sighted by Wanless for the failure of the replication; Things that should be...
- All older people should be guaranteed basic level of care. Day, Michael // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);4/8/2006, Vol. 332 Issue 7545, p810
The article focuses on a plan by The National Health Service of Great Britain to provide basic health care to all elderly persons, which would require an increase in social care spending from 1.1% to 2%. The current law often requires patients to sell their homes in order to pay for medical...
