1. UK National External Quality Assessment Service 2 Department of Haematology, University Hospitals of Leicester 3. NHS Blood and Transplant & University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust 4. Institute of Biomedical Scientists and NHS Blood and Transplant 5. University Hospitals of Leicester 6. International Blood Group Reference Laboratory, NHS Blood and Transplant. 7. Barts Health NHS Tr...

This article builds on Payne (2015) and reports on practice–based evidence arising out of the delivery of a new and innovative service using The BodyMind Approach (TBMA)TM for the treatment of patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) in primary care in the National Health Service (NHS) in Hertfordshire, a county near London, England, in the UK. The analysis of data collected for three...

introduction: cardiovascular diseases are important factors at human death and factor destroys human resources. health intervention is a service for developing of health and diagnoses or modifies of process diseases. it is necessary that every country regarding to its goals, laws national, interests and standards, considers establishing such a system. a comparison of cardiovascular disease clas...

BACKGROUND The global burden of the major vascular diseases is projected to rise and to remain the dominant non-communicable disease cluster well into the twenty first century. The Department of Health in England has developed the NHS Health Check service as a policy initiative to reduce population vascular disease risk. The aims of this study were to monitor population changes in cardiovascula...

The Scots and the English and Welsh are producing national guidance on NHS practice in different ways. Two apparently competing national agencies have already been established in Scotland—the Health Technology Board for Scotland and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). Yet another one is in the pipeline—the Scottish Medicines Consortium. In England and Wales there is one agen...

OBJECTIVES To explore what commissioners of care, regulators, providers, and care home residents in England identify as the key mechanisms or components of different service delivery models that support the provision of National Health Service (NHS) provision to independent care homes. METHODS Qualitative, semistructured interviews with a purposive sample of people with direct experience of c...

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. Second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...

Abstract Public reporting of clinical performance is increasingly used in many countries to improve quality and enhance accountability the health system. The assumption that greater transparency will stimulate improvements by clinicians response peer pressure, patient choice or competition. international diffusion public might suggest similarity between systems. Alternatively, national local co...

OBJECTIVES To describe and evaluate the implementation and adoption of detailed electronic health records in secondary care in England and thereby provide early feedback for the ongoing local and national rollout of the NHS Care Records Service. DESIGN A mixed methods, longitudinal, multisite, socio-technical case study. SETTING Five NHS acute hospital and mental health trusts that have bee...

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