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Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
Hospitals are caring for those who cannot live independently, but it's costly and not accounted for in NHS budgets
This will be a defining year for our NHS. Services must become more efficient if our current model of healthcare is to be considered sustainable.
Recent comments from former health secretary Andrew Lansley and Mike Farrar, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, suggest that key to this is ensuring that where appropriate, patients are treated at home. An expansion of preventative, community-based care services would allow a move away from the idea of hospitals being the "place of default" for non-emergency medical conditions, allowing us to take the pressure off our hospitals.
For this idea to really work, it needs a shift in resources and for all of to identify with a sense of social responsibility for those close to us, who are living precarious independent lives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2013/jan/14/society-problems-overwhelming-nhs
This will be a defining year for our NHS. Services must become more efficient if our current model of healthcare is to be considered sustainable.
Recent comments from former health secretary Andrew Lansley and Mike Farrar, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, suggest that key to this is ensuring that where appropriate, patients are treated at home. An expansion of preventative, community-based care services would allow a move away from the idea of hospitals being the "place of default" for non-emergency medical conditions, allowing us to take the pressure off our hospitals.
For this idea to really work, it needs a shift in resources and for all of to identify with a sense of social responsibility for those close to us, who are living precarious independent lives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2013/jan/14/society-problems-overwhelming-nhs