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Primary care news round-up (14th to 20th March 2024)

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GP funding has been cut by almost £350m in real terms since 2019. Community diagnosis to reach ten million tests Community diagnostic centres have now delivered seven million tests, with another ten million planned for the coming year. The group said: “The crisis in general practice has been caused by decades of neglect.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

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However, elective procedures haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic utilization (latest read of 98) and for screening and diagnostic tests, underwhelming use at 89 versus the 100 index pre-pandemic. With an Index of 100 for the first 8 weeks of 2020 (that is, the 2 months before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S.),

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Prescriptions Are Up, Health Services Utilization Down, and GLP-1s Are a Major Growth Driver: IQVIA’s 2024 Update

Health Populi

The other four types of utilization measured fell below the 100 line, including vaccinations at 96 (for adults, pediatrics, and flu); office, institutional and telehealth visits at 95; elective procedures at 95; and, screening and diagnostic tests the lowest at 94. Shifts and impacts in medicine across therapy areas in the U.S.

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SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

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Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes.

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JWT’s Future 100 Tells Us Tomorrow Is All About Health

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From culture to travel, food and drink to retail and beauty, health will be baked into consumer goods and experiences in 2019. Welcome to The Future 100: 2019 from The Innovation Group at JWT. People order tests online, complete their “homework,” and return samples back to labs. Health is all over, Culture.

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Cancer in the Age of COVID: Delayed Care May Reverse Survival Gains Particular Among Black People

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But it’s clear from IQVIA’s data that for at least six weeks, a minimum of 5 million fewer cancer patients engaged with a prescriber, either in person or via telehealth, based on what IQVIA would have expected based on 2019 claims data.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

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While connected fitness was gauged in 2019, the other three categories were new to the 2021 study. ” Emily also talks about Amazon planning a new health diagnostics are for at-home medical tests, and Microsoft investing heavily to build out its health care footprint. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

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