Prior to the new system, patients required a minimum of two visits for their annual review, which incurred additional costs, such as travel, booking and included risk cancellations. The study’s purpose is develop ‘one-stop’ review process. Aims–To ensure patient’s assessments are completed in an efficient manner. Facilitate services commissioning targets. Reduce costs wasted productive time. Co...

Abstract An urgent neck lump service was introduced at the Freeman Hospital (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) in 2017. All 2-week-wait head and referrals were triaged into this service. The clinic involves clinical examination by a specialist if appropriate an ultrasound scan (USS) +/- fine needle aspiration for cytology (FNAC). This centralised system means patients can be diagnosed earlier thus receive t...

background and objective: stop-bang questionnaire is a well-known obstructive sleep apnea (osa) screening tool. this study aimed to evaluate that patients with high probability of osa in stop-bang questionnaire meet the criteria for assessment by split-night polysomnography (psg). materials and methods: patients who were admitted to three sleep clinics and underwent full-night psg entered into ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-D) or its active metabolite, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25-D), are lower in women at the time of first diagnosis of breast cancer than in comparable women without breast cancer. DESIGN This was a clinic-based case-control study with controls frequency-matched to cases on race, age, clinic and month of blood drawing. SETTING U...