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U.K. Nursing School Applications Fall for the Second Year in a Row

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The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) says there were 33,570 applications to nursing schools in the U.K. For the third consecutive year, we have seen over 26,000 acceptances to undergraduate nursing and midwifery programmers and in 2022 there were 3,700 more acceptances compared to 2019 – a 16% increase,” they added.

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Home Is Where the Health Is, CareMore Health (And Most People) Believe

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adults 23 years of age and over in September and October 2019. To gain peoples’ perspectives on health care at home and chronic disease management, CareMore Health and Aspire Health commissioned a survey among 2,009 U.S.

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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

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.” And another verbatim observation that illustrates some hospitals’ doubling-down on the outpatient opportunity: “The focus of the past 10 years has been on preventing readmissions, and now in the next 10 years, the focus will be on preventing admissions.”

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And Now For Something Completely Different

The Healthcare Blog

soccer) club is not charging its fans admission during the current season. The idea is not entirely de novo; last spring Fortuna Düsseldorf, a German second division football club, announced it would offer free admission for at least three matches this season, with the intent that eventually all home matches. “We The club is Paris FC.

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Blood Pressure From the Wrist for the First Time – Welcome, Omron HeartGuide

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The HeartGuide will be available at retail beginning January 9, 2019 — during the week of CES in Las Vegas. Self-care for a heart patient or someone at-risk for heart disease can prevent an emergency room visit or inpatient admission, $499 could be a great preventive care investment. This is roughly the price of an Apple Watch.

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Scaling the Social Determinants of Health – McKinsey and Kaiser’s Bold Move

Health Populi

McKinsey also found that consumers reporting greater use of the emergency department and inpatient hospital admissions were also more likely to report unmet social needs. “The new Thrive Local network will start rolling out summer 2019,” K-P’s press release said.

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What’s behind all these assessments of digital health?

The Healthcare Blog

Their logic always goes something like “XY% of patients used our solution, most of them like it, and after they use it hospital admissions and ER visits go down, and clinical metrics get better”. Of course the companies concerned have their own studies, In some cases, several years worth.

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