BACKGROUND In the UK, audiology services deliver the majority of tinnitus patient care, but not all patients experience the same level of service. In 2009, the Department of Health released a Good Practice Guide to inform commissioners about key aspects of a quality tinnitus service in order to promote equity of tinnitus patient care in UK primary care, audiology, and in specialist multi-discip...

NHS Direct is a 24-h patient-led telephone advice service, based in England and Wales, which aims to help callers to self-manage problems and reduce unnecessary demands on other National Health Service (NHS) provision (Munro et al., 2000a). NHS Direct is the world’s largest health care telephone advice service (Munro, 2002) and is leading the current international trend towards telemedicine and...

As phrases like "managed care backlash" become part of the lexicon in American health care policy circles, it is instructive to examine a managed competition experiment in a vastly different context. Britain's Conservative government instituted reforms in 1991 to transform the National Health Service (NHS) from a centrally administered service to managed competition between purchasers and provi...

OBJECTIVE To document the range of web and smartphone apps used and recommended for stress, anxiety or depression by the National Health Service (NHS) in England. DESIGN The study was conducted using Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and systematic website searches. DATA SOURCES Data were collected via FOI requests to NHS services between 13 February 2015 and 31 March 2015, and searches...

The British National Electronic Library for Health aims to provide both healthcare professionals and the public with knowledge to support healthcare related decisions. This meta resource is essentially an electronic clearinghouse of various initiatives within the UK and the National Health Service (NHS). The main site is free to all users, but only registered NHS health providers can access som...

in their study, brenna and spandonaro analyzed the mobility into italian regions. in particular, it analyzes the situation of 5 regions, with very different backgrounds. with this paper, we try to better define the meaning of health mobility and to find its underlying causes. furthermore, we propose a strategy that could help in controlling mobility flows that currently are the source of health...

BACKGROUND A National Health Service (NHS) contingent liability for medical error claims of over £26 billion. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the safety management and educational benefits of adapting aviation's Normal Operations Safety Audit (NOSA) to health care. METHODS In vivo research, a NOSA was performed by medical students at an English NHS Trust. After receiving training from the author, th...

People at HSMC 12 experience enforced changes. Even the Department of Health and national bodies such as the NHS Institute and NPSA face major re-organisation or abolishment. The potential involvement of private organisations and social enterprises could lead to the independent sector becoming a major player in direct NHS delivery and commissioning and signal the end of a largely public sector ...

Nurses have a vital role in undertaking brief interventions and directing patients to NHS stop smoking services. This article reports on an audit that aimed to determine whether the local NHS stop smoking service delivered a 52-week quit rate in line with the national average of 15 per cent, and to relate this finding to health inequalities.

Transcranial direct current stimulation is coming of age with the large treatment study published in this issue. We review transcranial stimulation methods, their efficacy and the likely impact on National Health Service (NHS) practice. Their use in individuals who do not respond to or cannot tolerate medication should now be explored in large controlled naturalistic studies in the NHS.