Improvements made at a hospital maternity unit need to be "embedded and sustained", inspectors have said. The Care Quality ...

A new initiative aimed at improving the delivery of healthcare in north Cumbria saw nearly 4,000 referrals in a seven-month period according to ...

More than 200 health care workers rallied in Santa Rosa Wednesday to protest what union members said were inadequate services ...

Referral pathways from ambulance providers into urgent community response (UCR) services are in place in many areas of the country, but there is variation in approach. Although there has been ...

Background Patients often establish initial contact with healthcare institutions by telephone. During this process they are frequently medically triaged. Purpose To investigate the safety of ...

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Telephone triage in the dermatology practice is unlike telephone triage in other specialties, in several ways. First, there are few dermatologic emergencies, so the threshold question will not usually ...

If there is no way a practice can give patients timely appointments, then it makes sense to focus on offering safe telephone triage, to determine which patients need to be seen sooner, rather than ...

2 School of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Background The ESTEEM trial was a cluster randomised controlled trial that compared two ...

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Hampshire Division), Otterbourne, UK Dr C D Deakin, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust, North Wing, Southern House, Sparrowgrove, Otterbourne, Hants ...

1 National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care, Uni Health, Bergen, Norway 2 Section for General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, ...