Practice Index

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

According to the IGPM, the Department of Health should follow suit. Over the 14 years that led up to 2019, the number of appointments per patient remained much the same, but the length of time per consultation increased by nearly half. The proposal comes after the Government decision to end one-word Ofsted gradings for schools.

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Practice Index

JULY 25, 2024

CrowdStrike crisis highlights concerns about IT backups The NHS needs to find an improved way of backing up its IT systems following the havoc caused by the CrowdStrike failure last week, a senior GP has said. The NAO says that the new local integrated care systems have developed partnerships and drawn up plans to prevent ill health.

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Practice Index

MARCH 14, 2024

Practices urged to sign up as veteran friendly A drive has been launched to encourage practices to become “veterans friendly”. They say it’s likely this is because the problems resolved following the visit, but warn it could also indicate that a minority are not getting the help they need.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The following list is not exhaustive, but it provides a place to begin when taking a good, hard look at your situation. Are there grand rounds and other ways to learn? It All Comes Down to You In the final analysis, whether you stay or go is up to you. So, how do you decide? What about your job contributes to your growth?

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The practice serves 16,000 people and the latest project followed their installation of new phone systems. It follows the decision to enable pharmacies to advise patients on treatments for sinusitis, sore throat, earache, infected insect bites, impetigo, shingles and uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

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Practice Index

MAY 16, 2024

Practices will get support for periods of up to six months. It plans to deploy “experienced and skilled” facilitators to practices and set up group-based learning sessions to ensure experience sharing across practices. It followed the pausing of the GP Sustainability Loan Scheme.

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. Royal College of GPs Chair, Professor Kamila Hawthorne, said: “As always, the devil will be in the detail and it is essential that these plans are backed up by sufficient funding for primary and community care.”

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Practice Builders

APRIL 11, 2025

Incorrect diagnoses, surgical errors, and medication mix-ups often result from delayed or unclear communication. Practice the following: Standardized protocols, such as SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) for concise team briefings. Multidisciplinary rounds in which all members of the care team contribute.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“The NP workforce is in a constant state of growth to keep up with the rising demands of the healthcare system,” says Paula Tucker, DNP, FNP-BC, ENP-C, FAANP Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University. ” she says.

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Accepted Blog

AUGUST 28, 2024

Follow your medical school’s guidelines, and submit them as early as possible so you have time to incorporate any feedback. Once Applicant A gets matched to a program on their list (let’s say their second choice), they are removed from consideration for all programs lower on their list, which opens those spots up for other applicants.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

The problem is that the last round in 2021 was at a $6bn+ ZIRP era valuation with Tiger & Coatue paying the idiot price because Teladoc was trading at $15bn market cap then (albeit down from $30bn a year before that!). In other words it was a level above me following along to an exercise on Youtube. Then my knee slowly got worse.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 12, 2025

What Investors Look for in Early and Late-Stage Funding Rounds and How Regulatory Compliance Impacts Valuation For early-stage life sciences and health tech companies, raising capital is about more than demonstrating scientific promise. Unstructured financing rounds leading to cap table mismanagement.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I want to understand the needs of different nursing populations and bring a well-rounded global perspective to meeting the needs of our nurses and caregivers. Being a healthcare leader means listening closely to understand the intricacies of a challenge, thinking up out-of-the-box solutions, and asking for the expert advice of colleagues.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 15, 2023

March is National Kidney Month and Minority Nurse caught up with nephrology nurse Nancy Colobong Smith, MN, ARNP, ANP-BC, CNN to find out what it’s like to be a nurse in this specialty. Following my passion and having the support of mentors in finding my way was invaluable.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So I went from learning how to give a bed bath and make a hospital bed to serving as the executive director at this hospital and in a neighborhood close to where I grew up – it warms my heart. He rounds on the units daily and is very visible to staff. Anthony Hospital). What inspired you to become a nurse? It’s a huge responsibility.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bart covered many other ideas, but in the interest of attention spans for blog-reading, let me round out my takeaways with Bart’s policy recommendations summarized in these seven principles. For health care in the U.S. For health care in the U.S. Open Source as a True North underpins the recommendations overall.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

How AI can democratize and enchant health care – the WHO perspective In January 2024 I explored the World Health Organization’s report on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health in my Health Populi blog. That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter.

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Northwest Suburban College

JANUARY 25, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore the essential role that Dental Assistants, Medical Assistants, and Pharmacy Technicians play in improving patient education by providing clear, concise, and tailored information regarding healthcare procedures, medications, and self-care practices.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

” Oxford Dictionary provides context for the definition as follows: To work, as in especially hard physical work. Halle took time with me to answer a few questions about Natalist for the Health Populi blog. I actually bought the domain “Baby Someday” on Feb 22, 2016, right after my first round of IVF.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 20, 2024

Building an Application Putting together a well-rounded professional application is crucial for a new graduate. Your first application packet will set you up for life and help you land a role with the salary, benefits, and responsibilities you’re looking for.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Some programs are very clear about not wanting anything but the primary and secondary applications, and you should always follow their instructions. There are always applicants who get later interviews, however, so don’t give up hope. Did your experiences and meaningful experiences reflect a well-rounded candidate?

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) The Impact of Education on Nursing Practice report, the number of nurses with a BSN is growing, and positive results follow. Most hospitals and health departments prefer and only hire BS/BSN nurses,” says Bray.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Share valuable articles and health tips with patients via a blog or social media. Athenahealth found patients without a no-show have an attrition rate less than 19% compared to a single no-show which goes up to 70%. Sometimes questions come up later. Follow the care continuum and assess what happens. What frustrated you?

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Let’s start with some really easy questions: your background, where you grew up, and how on earth you got interested in admissions from biomedical engineering. [2:39] And basically I grew up in that city, that little small town in northwest Louisiana and now apparently the home district to our current speaker of the house.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Part of what you do when you sign up for medicine is like you didn’t sign up to sit in the classroom. You signed up to go in the hospital and see patients. A lot of them talk about where they grew up or who influenced them during their careers. They’re way up there. with a median science GPA of 3.9.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

So our students will select patients that they follow throughout the year in a longitudinal fashion. And so if you’re seeing a patient in clinic and they get hospitalized, you might then go round on them in the inpatient hospital. Their curricula might be set up in a way that someone with experience is more successful versus not.

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Practice Index

MARCH 20, 2025

It followed the settlement of the GP contract dispute and a promise of 889 million extra in core general practice funding. The post Primary care news round-up (13th to 19th March 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Practice Index

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The investment follows pressure from the BMA. NHS England says more than five million women are not up to date with their testing. The post Primary care news round-up (28th November to 4th December 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The Scottish Government promised an extra £13.6

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Accepted Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

If you are more of a kinesthetic learner, then time spent on hospital rounds will be a great way to reinforce concepts. In medical school, it is often up to you to decide how best to spend your time. You might want to ask yourself the following questions: Do you see yourself in primary care? Use your time wisely.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to part three of Three Trailblazing Hawaiian Nurses blog series – Alice Ting Hong Young – 1911- 1992: Hawaii’s First Nurse Midwife. She inspected midwife bags to ensure all the necessary equipment was present and clean, and she followed up on reports of lay midwives practicing without a license.

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Practice Index

AUGUST 1, 2024

CQC shake-up pledge Practices have welcomed plans for a shake-up of the CQC after a review found major failings. Hope for end to trainee doctor strikes GP trainee strikes are expected to end following a deal between the medical unions and the Government.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As you think about healthcare compared to other services that you receive on a daily basis, we’re just lagging so far behind in terms of how we provide digital services to our patients, to consumers, how we do follow-up, how we provide education. And he saw that actually as a business issue. 8:39] Absolutely.

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Setting Sights

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I guess the tolls and burdens of the last two years had finally crept up on me, and whilst I was at least out of those hospital walls for the first time in nearly two years, I was also completely on my own, with nobody to help me justify my new surroundings, the anxious feelings, or resolve them, for that matter.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Welcome to part one of Three Trailblazing Hawaiian Nurses blog series – Mabel Isabel Wilcox, First Registered Nurse in Hawaii. . Often on foot or horseback, she did case investigations, collected sputum samples, educated the community about the disease, and provided follow-up care to those diagnosed with TB.

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A Young Doctor's Journey

APRIL 20, 2023

You’ve come to the right place: in this blog post, I’ll share my highly * unbiased * thoughts on why EM is the greatest, and give some tips on things to know about applying to EM residency in the United States (especially as an international medical graduate aka IMG). I’ve got a lot to say on shiftwork so scroll down to see below!

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 12, 2023

For example, physicians on rounds may be curt and harried; other nurses may seem like they can’t even give you the time of day; and patients and their families may be wracked with worry and have many questions requiring complicated answers. Nuance may be challenging to achieve in this realm, so we do our best to be concise and descriptive.

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Accepted Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

The 2025 ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) application follows on last year’s restructured application, with a few changes. The AAMC site describes the various Primary Focus Areas as follows: Basic science (e.g., The AAMC site describes the various Primary Focus Areas as follows: Basic science (e.g.,

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