Cardiac service provision in the United Kingdom

Cardiac service provision in the United Kingdom.

Cardiac conditions account for at least half of acute medical admissions. The provision of a comprehensive and responsive cardiological service in the UK is therefore pivotal to the manner in which the NHS continues to modernise. This article reviews recent developments in cardiology, describes the current provision of cardiac services for the more commonly encountered conditions, and explores ...

Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

Citizenship information service provision in the United Kingdom: a study of 27 case agencies

This paper presents the results of 27 case study visits to public libraries, Citizens Advice Bureaux and other advice agencies throughout the UK. The main aim of the visits was to examine existing levels of citizenship information provision within these organisations. The visits consisted of interviews with staff and examination of the organisations’ collections of citizenship/community informa...

Penetrating cardiac injuries in the United Kingdom.

Cardiac transplantation in the United Kingdom.