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Food Insecurity, Energy Prices, and Medical Debt Spike in February 2022

Health Populi

household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. in January 2022. in January 2022. There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S.

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Primary care news round-up (3rd to 9th April 2025)

Practice Index

It calls for adequate resources for digital tools and triage systems and for time for service improvement. The BMA said that 56% of GPs have not had pensions data updated to 2022-3, representing more than 156,000 years of missing pension data. A third of GPs have told the BMA in a survey that this is harming their performance at work.

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2022: Showing Up

Setting Sights

But I had genuinely believed, whilst bringing in the New Year of 2022 with such hope, and in hindsight, naivety , that this would be the best year yet; after all, it couldn’t exactly had gotten any worse. In brutal honesty, 2022 turned out to be the hardest year yet. I did, in the end, return to medical school, in June 2022.

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Health Systems Must Move “Beyond the Walls” to Support Consumers’ Well-Being

Health Populi

This report is based on detailed interviews with experts in 30 US health system conducted between November 2022 and March 2023.

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Primary care news round-up (2nd May to 8th May 2024)

Practice Index

In some areas, this will include “fit note trailblazers” which will test new ways of triage and signposting to employment support services. increase in administrative and non-clinical staff working in general practice in Wales, which is 87 more than in 2022. The number of full-time equivalent qualified GPs fell by four to 1,588.

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What Can I Do With a Medical Assistant Certification?

ACI Medical & Dental School

Urgent Care Centers: Assist with triage and patient assessments. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of Medical Assistants is expected to grow by 14% from 2022 to 2032 , much faster than the average for all occupations. Outpatient Care Centers: Assist with patient intake and procedures. According to the U.S.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

Including the algorithmically underserved Dr. John Halamka, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform, raised this last point two years ago at the HLTH 2022 conference , talking about the “algorithmically underserved.” Simply put, this is the population of people who are not well-represented in health data sets for three reasons Dr.