Submitted by Aspergillus Administrator on 16 September 2013
Doctors in the UK have been debating for some time now as to how to reorganise health services in order to allow them to be more accurately suited to public demand. This short editorial in the British Medical Journal discusses the issues and mentions extensive consultative reports that have included a lot of input from patients, so this isn’t a move based on a need to make lives easier for doctors, it is aimed at addressing the needs of patients.
100 years ago a patient with Tuberculosis may have been admitted to a sanatorium such as here at Wythenshawe Hospital and kept in for many months. Nowadays stays in hospitals are kept to a minimum as we recognise multiple problems with long stays including infection and cost. There has been for some time a move to take health care out of hospitals and place it closer to the community. Modern hospitals are more and more driven by the need to respond to acute (short term) cases
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