Abstract Aim of the study is assessment awareness and knowledge colorectal Enhanced Recovery Program (ERP) newly joined junior doctors at a general district hospital. ERP an essential evidence-based element surgical patients’ management during preoperative, operative, postoperative periods. Junior play integral part in management. Local hospital guidelines require 100 % among team members. Meth...

Purpose: The National Health Insurance Service implemented a tele-consultation pilot project for in-home care using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This study aims to investigate nurses’, doctors’, families’ perceptions on the project.Methods: Using database perception survey data, this provides description of satisfaction, re-participation motivation, experiences nurses, doc...

and demand will bring down medical fees. I wonder. It appears that most young doctors wish to specialise and avoid general practice. Surgeons' fees varied a bit some ten years ago when there was a glut of general surgeons, but no one lowered his fees to attract the customers; more usually they charged what they could (or what they needed to stay in business). Some three years ago the Australian...

A lot of confusion and misunderstanding has been created by several commentators on the issue of non-performing loans (NPLs) of banking system. They take the absolute amount of such loans at the current point of time and compare it with the quantum of such loans in October 1999 and make a hue and cry that the situation has deteriorated because the quantum of NPLs has gone up. Such a simplistic ...

Junior doctors commonly make mistakes which may compromise patient safety. Despite the recent push by the NHS to encourage a "no blame" culture, mistakes are still viewed as shameful, embarrassing and demoralising events. The current model for learning from mistakes means that junior doctors only learn from their own errors. A survey was designed by the author for all the Foundation Year 1 doct...

background decentralisation aims to bring services closer to the community and has been advocated in the health sector to improve quality, access and equity, and to empower local agencies, increase innovation and efficiency and bring healthcare and decision-making as close as possible to where people live and work. fiji has attempted two approaches to decentralisation. the current approach refl...

Introduction: Angola has about 28 million inhabitants andapproximately 0.21 physicians/1,000 population. There is onlyone specialist in some medical fields in the whole country whilethere is not even one specialist in some other fields. The objectiveof this study is to investigate the significance of the CooperationProgram for Foreign Doctors (Brazil) and its impac...

BACKGROUND Oesophago-gastric cancer services in England have been extensively reorganised since 2001 to deliver a centralised, specialist-led service. Our aim was to assess how well the National Health Service (NHS) in England met organisational standards for oesophago-gastric cancer care. METHODS Questionnaires that asked about the provision of staging investigations, curative and palliative...