Vaccines are one of the greatest triumphs of healthcare innovation. They have saved millions of lives, prevented destructive chronic illnesses and eased pressures on health services across the globe. The UK NHS constitution states that everyone has the right to receive vaccinations recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) under a NHS-provided national immunisati...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This paper is based on a qualitative study that aimed to identify factors that facilitate or impede evidence-based policy making at a local level in the UK National Health Service (NHS). It considers how models of research utilisation drawn from the social sciences map onto empirical evidence from this study. DESIGN A literature review and case studies of social research proje...

Revitalizing Care Program in UK Healthcare: Does It Add Up? Kay Riley, MBA, CIHCC, RN; Deanna Gibbs, PhD, MOT, Grad Cert Res Meth, BAppSc(OT) Background: The National Health Service (NHS) is a publicly funded health service in the United Kingdom that provides free point-of-use services for UK residents. In England, the NHS annual budget currently equates to £106 million. As the global financial...

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has become the main psychological treatment provided by the National Health Service (NHS) of the UK. Its position in the NHS has been strengthened by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance, which recommends CBT as the psychological treatment of choice for a broad range of psychological and mental health problems. The NICE gu...

Scottish Dementia Clinical Research Network, NHS Scotland, UK, Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK, Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK, NHS North Yorkshire and York, UK, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK and NHS Lo...

1 MRC Prion Unit, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, UCLH NHS Trust, Queen Square, London, UK 2 National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH NHS Trust, Queen Square, London, UK 3 Joint Research Office Biostatistics Unit, UCL, and Education Unit, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK 4 MRC Clinical Tr...

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) ensures equal access care to all British residents. Health outcomes, nonetheless, vary across socioeconomic class, education level, and geographic location, a phenomenon particularly affecting Britain’s South Asian Muslim communities. This paper will contextualize the NHS within the British national imaginary and analyze discursive, social, and economic v...

Changing from paper-based systems to digital mechanisms means that personal information becomes more easily accessible and more difficult to control and secure. When the paper-based practice is in a sector such as healthcare, concerns for patient privacy protection are great. In paper-based prescribing in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS), patients are responsible for protectin...

British Committee for Standards in Haematology C. Milkins,1 J. Berryman,2 C. Cantwell,3 C. Elliott,4 R. Haggas,5 J. Jones,6 M. Rowley,3,7 M. Williams8 & N. Win9 1UK NEQAS (BTLP), West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, Watford, UK, 2Department of Blood Transfusion, University College London Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, 3Department of Blood Transfusion, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Tr...

The National Health Service in England considers on the Government's plans to improve quality of health care Commenting on another of its consultation papers, one notary recently gave the British Government " for presentation, minus for deliverability ". 1 Early indications are that the Government's consultation paper on quality in the English National Health Service (NHS) 2 could edge up to a ...