Private patients preferring to use NHS facilities.

Patients with private health insurance using NHS facilities in preference to private care.

Quality of care in private sector and NHS facilities for people with dementia: cross sectional survey.

Residential and nursing homes provide an essential contribution towards the care of people with dementia. It is a challenge to provide good care within tight budgets and often with a workforce that has little formal training. Most people are cared for within the private sector, although a limited number of NHS beds provide continuing care for people with severe dementia and intractable behaviou...

NHS facilities management: a prescription for change

The role of facilities management in the delivery of effective healthcare is linked to the recent growth of facilities management in the NHS in the UK. Research has shown the benefits which can be achieved by the introduction of integrated facilities management. The cultural changes, that are coming as a result of the 24-hour society in which we now live, bring new challenges and opportunities....

Private finance initiatives during NHS austerity.

417 ANALYSIS The NHS is facing serious revenue pressures if it is to meet the target of £15bn-20bn efficiency savings by 2013-4. 1 One important pressure for trust budgets in England is the annual private finance initiative (PFI) charge, which is ring fenced and indexed to inflation. Since 1991, all NHS trusts have had to pay a charge on NHS buildings and equipment to the Treasury, which averag...

Facebook use by Peruvian physicians: exposing private life to patients.

al behavior such as alcohol consumption, and revealed other sensitive aspects of their personal lives on Facebook, thereby making them available for observation by patients, as previously reported [1–4] . In this scenario, Facebook could play a key role in transforming the doctor-patient relationship: becoming aware of the doctor’s past and habits in everyday life beyond the consultation room m...