health care systems

The Guardian Thousands of foreign nurses a year leave UK to work abroad Denis Campbell "Almost 9,000 foreign nurses a year are leaving the UK to work abroad, amid a sudden surge in nurses quitting the already understaffed NHS for better-paid jobs elsewhere. The rise in nurses originally from...

The Kings Fund How does the NHS compare to the health care systems of other countries ? Siva Anandaciva *Comparing the health care systems of different countries can help politicians and policy‑makers assess how the UK health care system is performing and where it could improve. *For...

ITV The Philippines' 'critical brain drain' as nurses leave their home country for jobs abroad Thousands of nurses from the Phillippines move to the UK to work for the NHS, but it's leaving their health service struggling, ITV News Asia Correspondent reports. The Philippines is the biggest...

Financial Times US life expectancy is in freefall as the young and the poor bear the brunt of struggles for shared prosperity. I’m not sure people on my side of the Atlantic fully appreciate quite how much better off the average American is than the average European. A car-wash manager in...

Graphic summary of of the key messages highlighted in the paper positioning Long COVID as a global health concern. https://jogh.org/2022/jogh-12-03067

So in the hypothetical that a program already exists for ME patients, should there be a separate program for Long-COVID patients? This is in the context of socialized medicine where patients with ME are treated with CBT and symptom management. Why or why not? Please discuss.

A program developed to reduce healthcare utilization by "superutilizers" failed to show any effect on healthcare utilization. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1906848 This may be of interest to readers here because this was a behavioural health approach that involves searching for...

Sent to me by very supportive patient advocate for ME and CFS in Norfolk for nearly 40 years Dr Patrick Thompson ! "There is a mismatch between research questions which are considered to be important by patients, carers and healthcare professionals and the research performed in many fields of...