Additionally, an EU directive on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, is setting out the conditions under which a patient may travel to another EU country to receive medical care and ...

Background Hospital readmissions are an important quality of care indicator and are tied to hospitals’ financial reimbursements. Safety-net hospitals, which serve a high proportion of patients of low ...

Harm-reduction advocates have insisted that there are too few safer supply patients (roughly 4,500 in B.C.) to meaningfully ...

An aspiring nurse from Bishop Auckland has spoken about how apprenticeship opportunities are enabling him to reach his dream ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...

Natividad Medical Center released a joint statement with the Health Department to announce their reassurance amid privacy “We are committed to providing equitable, compassionate, quality care to all ...

Visiting a doctor annually (or more often, depending on your health) can help you take a preventive approach to care. If you have conditions known to affect heart health, such as chronic kidney ...

Palliative care for cardiovascular disease may help relieve symptoms, provide mental health support, and help people with these diseases and their families make decisions. It may also include help ...

Background A study was undertaken to examine the association ... Information on mental disorders was obtained from the Finnish Care Register for Healthcare (FCR) maintained by the Finnish Institute ...

In 2017, the Chinese government launched the ‘Healthy China’ policy, with the aim of providing comprehensive health services through all stages ... reduced their expenditure on medical and nursing ...

Objectives To improve the experiences of people from diverse cultural backgrounds ... awareness and competence in healthcare contexts. The aim of this focus-group based study was to explore how ...

The Northern New England Cardiovascular Study used organisational peer-to-peer review to improve the care of cardiac surgery patients11 and the National Health Service in the UK used it to improve the ...