This brief explores what access to care, coordination of care, and quality of care look like for older adults with health ...

This guidance is part of the NHS organisations with an impact on digital general practice section of the Good practice guidelines for GP electronic patient records. A PCN is a group of GP practices ...

Data on hospital beds are important1 but must not eclipse upstream priorities for tackling pressures in the NHS. Strengthening general practice is crucial. This calls for medical educators and NHS ...

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The Swiss town of Neuchâtel is offering its residents a novel medical option: Expose yourself to art and get a doctor’s note to do it for free. Under a new two-year pilot project, local and ...

HOLLAND — Dr. Deborah Palmer sat at the cherry wood dining room table in the home of her 71-year-old patient, trying to understand why he kept waking up in the middle of the night with a ...

State officials said this week they are preparing in case Commonwealth Care Alliance collapses, in an effort to protect the health care of the struggling insurer’s nearly 50,000 elderly ...

The United States healthcare system is failing. We rank last among developed countries in healthcare performance, and Americans face lower life expectancy and growing chronic disease rates despite ...

Every day, dozens of elderly Singaporeans living alone find comfort in conversing with care staff from Active Ageing Centres (AACs) over the phone. Now, a new automated solution by the non-profit ...

It may seem counterintuitive, but hospital emergency rooms can be hazardous to the health of elderly patients. The chaotic environment can cause delirium and deconditioning to set in fast, and ...

Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients ...

It’s hard to believe, but this week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns across the globe turned the world we knew upside ...