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NHS Is Trying To Treat People With The Longest Wait Periods
The NHS Elective Recovery Plan, released earlier this year, outlined how the health system will solve COVID-19 treatment backlogs, beginning by focusing on the patients who had to wait the longest. Since reaching a peak of 22,500 in January,...
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How Delay Slowed A Once-Frantic COVID-19 Jab Pace In Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal in October 2021 to fully immunise 70% of each nation's population against COVID-19 by the end of June 2022. Many Covid-19 vaccination programmes in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, were...
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Drastic Loss of Taste and Smell for a Longer Period Among Delta Variant COVID Patients
1. When was it that it was realised that such a study needed to be conducted on the people contracting the Delta variant?
Back in April 2021, when the Delta variant started to spread globally, there had been anecdotal reports...
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Medical Service Pricing in India – The Current Status
The Indian healthcare system is in a conundrum on many accords, be it in terms of the deliverables or achieving desirable patient outcomes. Achieving access, affordability, and cost containment are the major battles to be waged, just like in...
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Transforming the Language of Healthcare to Address Inequality
For the first time in history, the 2020 U.S. Census(1) showed white ethnicity declining as multi-racial populations increased. This heterogeneity should not equate to discrepancies in healthcare provision, but unfortunately it does. Despite health services being equally available across...
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What’s Next for Telehealth
Just as many of us began working from home at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant number of people also nixed in-person doctors’ appointments in favor of telehealth consultations with their physicians. While virtual care was originally...
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7 ways to boost healthcare practitioner wellbeing and productivity
With the Great Resignation in full swing, healthcare institution managers must look for ways to address the physical and mental wellbeing of nurses and carers to keep them in their roles. A 2021 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey...
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