It is also the harm to health systems, many of which struggle with service sustainability and
rising costs. With the mounting pressure and strain on primary care services and providers …

The Labour government introduced health checks in April 2009, requiring primary care trusts
to screen all adults aged 40-74 in England, roughly 15 million people, for diabetes, chronic …

All health systems struggle with the issue of meeting population health needs fairly under
resource constraints. Decisions about the implementation of new technologies provide a …

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Many have argued that good quality health care includes involvement of patients in
decisions about their care. Furthermore, care should only be judged as appropriate if, as …

Members of the Faculty of Public Health have defied their leadership and voted for it to fight
to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill. The board's priority had been to advocate on …

Government defends NHS health checks for people aged 40-74 but promises evaluation
Government defends NHS health checks for people aged 40-74 but promises evaluation …

Over the past 150 years, healthcare delivery has expanded from what was largely a social
service provided by individual practitioners, often in the home, to a complex system of …

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We say this quite deliberately as medical doctors on the staff of the World Health
Organisation, of the Maryland department of health and mental hygiene, of universities, and …