Cancer Patients From Deprived Areas of South East England Aren't Receiving Optimum Treatment
...in south east England: ecological study) A major reorganisation of cancer services is underway in England and Wales in response to the Calman-Hine Report (1994), with the aim of improving access to and quality of cancer treatment. In this week's BMJ Dr Allyson Pollock and Neil Vickers from St George's Hospital M...Telemedicine could offer fewer follow-up tests and greater satisfaction for patients
...opriate selection of patients, significant service reorganisation and provision of logistical support for arranging and conducting consultations will be required to enable such services to operate efficiently. The extent to which virtual outreach is actually implemented will probably also be dependent on factors su...Telemedicine could offer fewer follow-up tests and greater satisfaction for patients
...opriate selection of patients, significant service reorganisation and provision of logistical support for arranging and conducting consultations will be required to enable such services to operate efficiently. The extent to which virtual outreach is actually implemented will probably also be dependent on factors su...Do stroke therapies really work?
...rains. Many therapies are designed to boost this reorganisation by stimulating the intact hemisphere. For instance, speech-impaired patients are often encouraged to sing a song containing the word they are seeking. The hope is that embedding it in a heavily prosodic, or tonal, context will engage the right hemisp...UK Teenage Cancer Trust demands government action to aid young cancer patients
...ly considered by the medical profession, hindering reorganisation of service delivery. Nor had the NHS made any infrastructure changes to care appropriately for young cancer patients. "It is taking a charity Teenage Cancer Trust to show the way and inspire change. We have established eight specialist adolescent u......here is no good evidence to show that a structural reorganisation of primary care trusts would bring benefit to pati...dom deliver the promised benefits, they add. Every reorganisation produces a transient drop in performance, and it takes a new organisation at least two to three year...