The loss of a trusted doctor is never easy, and it’s an experience that is increasingly common.
The loss of a trusted doctor is never easy, and it’s an experience that is increasingly common.
By Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio, KFF Health News First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system. “I don’t know,” she said, her eyes filling with tears. “To go to a doctor that doesn’t know who you are? That doesn’t know what allergies you have, the medicines that make you feel bad? It’s difficult.” ...
TORONTO - Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones and her ministry are refusing to divulge the amount of money that seven patients in the province have been fined for not accepting transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing. A law enacted in 2022, known as Bill 7, requires hospitals to levy fines of $400 a day on patients who can be discharged but need long-term care and are refusing to go to a nursing home selected for them by a placement co-ordinator. The...
Mr. Swann said workforce challenges among domiciliary care providers are having an impact. Funding has been increased to meet the needs of the Western Trust’s ageing population, he added. "The Western Health and Social Care Trust Trust Annual Domiciliary Care budget amounts to £46.3m. This includes an additional £1.353m allocated to meet demographic growth for the last two financial years. The Trust currently deploys all of the Domiciliary Care resources allocated. This amounts to an average...
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust hopes to draw up detailed designs and appoint a building contractor for the scheme, expected to cost more than £650m. A new adults’ hospital, a children’s hospital and maternity centre will be open by 2030 at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) if the scheme goes to plan. The trust said it would press ahead with the development after the government publishes standardised design principles for new NHS buildings under a plan known as Hospital 2.0. Simon Worthington,...
After ten years as an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse, looking after the hospital's sickest patients, I've almost become desensitised to it.
More than 163,000 patients in England have endured delays of at least 18 weeks. This is up on the 32,000 in February 2020, the month before Covid rocked Britain.
Gillan Grant (pictured right) put her name on a document that effectively denied her grandmother (left) potentially lifesaving treatment.
George Eliot Hospital is struggling to discharge a large number of patients and this is impacting the beds it has available for others
A program that provides some patients acute-level care in their own home is now up and running at four Vancouver hospitals: Vancouver General, St. Paul's, Mount St. Joseph and the University of B.C. hospital.
"This is the worst I’ve seen it, I’ve seen it bad but never as bad this", Patient Anna-Maria Cahalane said.