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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"National health services"”.
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Culture Dimensions of Information Systems Security in Saudi Arabia National Health Services
… cultures has attracted scholars as well as healthcare services industry to research the topic and find appropriate tools and approaches to develop a positive culture. The vast majority of studies in Saudi national health services are on the use of technology to protect and secure health …
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United Kingdom National Health Services: a case study of workforce transformation in an integrated care organisation using actor-network theory
… as possible to patients home have affected the services provided as well as those who provide them. One of the local acute health care organisations has chosen to integrate with the community and primary care services in response to this policy. A gap in literature about the role of the …
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ISO 9001 certification and accreditation in healthcare system
Being strategic guidance, International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) certification and hospital accreditation offer alternative mechanisms as management and improvement tools for quality and safety, or as a mark of an accomplishment. Instruments for the external assessment of hospitals and …
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Modelling patient pathway progression and high resource individuals
Healthcare provision across the UK is facing unprecedented financial challenges. One key challenge is that a small number of individuals are responsible for a disproportionate cost. The thesis mainly addresses the topic of high resources individuals (HRIs) and is based on confidential data that are …
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HITEQI-A framework to implement health information technology-enabled quality improvement.
This thesis proposes a framework known as the Health Information Technology-Enabled Quality Improvement (HITEQI) to provide a structured approach to quality improvement in healthcare where the intervention is through the use of information technology. HITEQI combines the core elements of Canada …
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Investigating kidney disease clinical epidemiology using routinely collected administrative data and proteomics
Data collected routinely during healthcare visits and additional biospecimens collected as part of cohort study activities are invaluable to better understand kidney disease epidemiology. This thesis explores the detection and characterization of acute kidney injury (AKI), chronic kidney disease …
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The Impact of Nutritional Deficiencies and Iron Deficiency Anaemia on Pregnancy Outcome Among Adult Pregnant South Asian Women in the UK: Review of Health Risks, Barriers and Policy Interventions
… reproductive age in the UK and examine related health risks, barriers to get adequate nutrition and existing policy interventions. Method: A systematic literature review (SLR) is chosen in this review as a research design. We searched PubMed, ProQuest and Google Scholar and the literature search …
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A Discursive Study of how Mental Health Social Workers Constructed their Professional Selves within the Context of National Health Service Mental Health Services
… been continued drives in England to integrate National Health Services and Local Authorities’ social care within a single mental health service, with the aim of bringing about improvements in health and social care (Local Government Association et al., 2016). This is underpinned by the belief …
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Improving radiographers’ and patients’ communication in the cardiac catheter laboratory (radiographer’s perspectives)
The National Health Services (NHS) radiography workforce is a vital part of the specialist cardiac team, providing rapid access to a range of high-quality and appropriate imaging during a critical period of the care pathway. Effective communication and interaction between cardiac radiographers and …
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Public health nutrition intervention to delay the progression of HIV to AIDS among people living with HIV (PLWHIV) in Abuja, Nigeria
… and its scourge has had a devastating impact on health, nutrition, food security and overall socioeconomic development in countries that have been greatly affected by the disease. The engagement of HIV/AIDS with under nutrition form a symbiotic relationship and one increases the prevalence and …
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A Geospatial Approach for New Perspectives on Satisfaction with Health Services in Malawi
… the spatial pattern of user satisfaction with health services and factors, including policies that potentially explain the variation in the district-level of user satisfaction with health services. Nationwide secondary data was extracted from the 2002 Core Social Welfare Indicators Survey and …
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Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases from Bio-Signals: A Machine Learning Approach
… way forward will negatively affect patients, national health services and society as a whole.Three distinctive development stages of neurodegenerative diseases (Retrogenesis, Cognitive Impairment and Gait Impairment) motivated me to divide this research work into two main parts. To fully …
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An exploration of the mental health lived experiences of Polish migrants, who access Mental Health Services, while resident in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
… However, their representation within mental health services remains disproportionate to the population census. Little is known about Polish migrants’ experiences of access and treatment from mental health services in the UK. This research explores Polish migrants' lived experiences of mental …
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Power, management and complexity in the NHS: a Foucauldian perspective
… in order to strategically sustain an image of health care historically constituted in their self. The results portray a web of discourses that endorse conformity or complicity through oppressive mechanisms of disciplinary control and surveillance, perpetuating authoritative and dualist …
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No contest: theorizing power through aspects of health and social care policy in the wake of the demise of the internal market in NHS Wales
… further developing the theorization of power in health and social care policy in the United Kingdom has been identified in a number of recent publications (Hunter, 2008; Crinson, 2009; Ham, 2009). This critical overview analyzes relative power to connect policy at the macro level (ending the …
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Health and safety in the construction industry - a review of procurement, monitoring, cost effectiveness and strategy
The management of health and safety is an issue that is relevant and crucial to all organisations across all industries, to include traditional industries, commercial, information technology (IT), the National Health Services (NHS), care homes, schools, higher educational institutions, travel and …
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Analysis of patient drug usage trends in the POYC scheme
… of your Choice (POYC) scheme is part of the national health service in Malta. This pharmaceutical service provides free medicines and pharmaceutical devices for chronic diseases through private community pharmacies. The aim of this study was to analyse drug usage data within the POYC system …
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An empirical study of the role of emotional intelligence and effective leadership in a workplace environment of change
… within the workplace environment of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK; which is endemic with change (Allen, 2009; Iles & Cranfield, 2004). The broad question posited is: Within the context of change, what is the nature of the association between EI, leadership styles and …