Collaboration between different professions in community care for older people is often both difficult and complex. In this project, a participatory action research (PAR) was conducted in order to support the professions involved in the care for older people to develop individualized health and social care plans. Cases from daily work were discussed in different professional groups over a perio...

Objectives. To describe the development and implementation of an interprofessional activity using standardized patients. Methods. In the interprofessional standardized patient experience (ISPE), pharmacy students are teamed with medical and nursing students. This team completes an assessment of a standardized patient. During this assessment, each student has time to interview the patient accord...

OBJECTIVES Although the safety of patients has been one of the inherent concerns of dental practice, but because the proposals made in the field of dentistry are few and improperly structured, this paper constitutes an attempt to present a proposal titled "Plan for Dental Health Care Risk Management, " promoted by the General Council of Dentists of Spain, including a description of the proposed...

The inside story of how Bill and Hillary Clinton fashioned the health-care plan. Their own aides often battled over the Clintons' approach.

Models of day services for people with intellectual disabilities in Scotland are changing, with the purpose, content and availability being reviewed. There has been concern that a move to more flexible 'alternative day opportunities' is driven more by reduced budgets than a policy of modernising day services in response to individual needs. During a day services review, a questionnaire was used...

Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) eligible High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP)s emerged as new health care insurance models referred to as Consumer Directed Health Plans (CDHPs) in the early 2000s. The purpose of this study is to examine the association between enrollees’ level of earnings and plan choice when a Managed Care PPO, HRA, and HSA eligible HDHP are...

BACKGROUND Evidence is needed for the integration of mental health into primary care advocated by the national health sector strategic investment plan in Uganda. AIMS To describe the processes of developing a district mental healthcare plan (MHCP) in rural Uganda that facilitates integration of mental health into primary care. METHOD Mixed methods using a situational analysis, qualitative s...

Protective isolation denotes a range of practices used to protect immunocompromised hospital patients from infection. The decision to institute protective isolation will be made as part of an individualized plan of care, taking into account the reason for, the nature, degree and expected duration of immunosuppression of the affected person. This article examines protective isolation, when it mi...

The UK Department of Health's (2008) End of Life Care Strategy highlighted the need for greater public awareness around planning and the choices available as people approach the end of their life. Despite efforts to 'normalise' death and dying and recognise that they are an inevitable part of life, a taboo persists and open communication about these issues is often limited or restricted to peri...

In 2013, the UK Department of Health called for the abolition of the Liverpool care pathway, which was designed to bring a standard of care for the dying from the hospice sector into other settings. This move was provoked by an independent review, which showed that the pathway had been misused and misinterpreted as a tick box exercise. It called for individualised care plans and better staff tr...