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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In the contentious debate over healthcare in this country, the United Kingdom's single-payer, government-funded National Health Service has been held up by both sides as a system to be either emulated as an ideal or avoided as an abomination. Neither of those extreme views allows that British health providers might have something to learn from the way things are done on this side of the Atlantic.
But that is just what 20 doctors and nurses from northwest England came to do this week in Washington. The group spent the weekend dodging rain worthy of their home, and each day's schedule made time for tea. The main events were to tour Kaiser Permanente's clinic on Capitol Hill and the Veterans Affairs hospital, two giants in the U.S. healthcare delivery world, and to learn about how they each had achieved certain health outcomes while saving on the cost of care.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PatientCenteredMedicalHome/PatientCenteredMedicalHome/39861
But that is just what 20 doctors and nurses from northwest England came to do this week in Washington. The group spent the weekend dodging rain worthy of their home, and each day's schedule made time for tea. The main events were to tour Kaiser Permanente's clinic on Capitol Hill and the Veterans Affairs hospital, two giants in the U.S. healthcare delivery world, and to learn about how they each had achieved certain health outcomes while saving on the cost of care.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PatientCenteredMedicalHome/PatientCenteredMedicalHome/39861