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SAN DIEGO--Incorporating pharmacists into primary care offices has the potential to significantly impact patient care and save health care costs, according to Hae Mi Choe, PharmD. Drug-related morbidity in the [...]

There was a time when doctors were protective of the information they entered into patients' records. However, with the advent of electronic health records (EHRs) and patients' desire for transparency, [...]

Several months ago, family members pointed out that this 60-year-old woman's left ear was red. She consulted her primary care provider, who prescribed antibiotics. But when these failed to clear [...]

Patient satisfaction and PA autonomy are this year's hot topics, judging by the contents of our mailbag. Here are responses to recent editorials--plus a word of caution about the 'kissing [...]

>> Clinical pharmacists who provide comprehensive medication management (CMM) services in primary care networks (PCNs) are helping diabetic patients meet therapeutic goals.A study at UC Davis Health System PCN, which [...]

The article in the March 2018 edition of Consumer Reports (CR) concerning naturopathic doctors (NDs) is filled with bias and inaccuracies. I am a medical doctor who is a board-certified [...]

PLUNKET IS not proceeding with its plans to reduce the number of clinical nurse consultant (CNC) positions from nine to four. It received 33 individual and group submissions, including one [...]

This increased demand for healthcare services sees a growing need for a knowledgeable and skilled primary healthcare nursing workforce within the multidisciplinary team, who are enabled to work to their [...]

Within primary care, general practice nurses (GPNs) are recognised as one of the fastest growing health workforces in Australia (APNA 2014). In 2016, the number of GPNs working in Australian [...]

How we manage chronic disease has led to major changes in our health care systems. Hospitals have been downsized on the premise that chronic diseases should be managed in the [...]

Distraught parents of a 5-year-old girl are at their wit's end dealing with their daughter's perioral rash, which first appeared several months ago. Although they've consulted three different primary care [...]

THE NEW college of primary health care (PHC) nurses' committee met for the first time in October. Its main agenda item was to finalise the PHC nursing knowledge and skills [...]

PLUNKET CLINICAL leaders, nurses and administrative staff have endorsed a collective agreement (CA) that delivers a range of pay increases to staff. Ratification meetings were held last month, with NZNO [...]

A 39-year-old man presents with asymptomatic lesions on both arms. When they manifested about six months ago, the patient diagnosed himself with 'ringworm' and began treating them with an OTC [...]

By April 1 the NHS will have undergone the biggest reorganisation in its 65 year history yet many healthcare professionals are still unclear about what it all means. Katrina Venerus, [...]

The rhetoric of shifts to primary care is becoming a reality. The trusts are adopting one of two positions; either a willing partner in the devolution of near patient care, [...]

mithran.samuel@rbi.co.uk The NHS faced more appeals against decisions to deny people continuing healthcare funding last year and a greater proportion were successful, Community Care research shows. The number of appeals [...]

mithran.samuel@rbi.co.uk The NHS faced more appeals against decisions to deny people continuing healthcare funding last year and a greater proportion were successful, Community Care research shows. The number of appeals [...]

Joint health and social care arrangements are at risk from government plans to merge primary care trusts together, sector leaders have warned in a letter to health secretary Andrew Lansley. [...]

A financial dispute seems to have killed off health and social care partnerships in Glasgow, but in next door East Renfrewshire integration is working well, finds Gordon Carson The end [...]

A 74-year-old woman is referred to dermatology by the primary care provider at her nursing home. She has a small hole on her left jaw that has drained foul-smelling material [...]

A 'bald spot' is the chief complaint of a 12-yearold girl brought for evaluation by her mother. The lesion in her left parietal scalp has been there since birth, slowly [...]

THREE PHYSICIAN LEADERS HAVE BEEN elected by the membership to join the American Association for Physician Leadership[R] board of directors. They were announced during the April 21-23 Annual Meeting in [...]

AT THEIR first meeting of 2017, primary health care (PHC) nurses were urged by chief nursing officer (CNO) Jane O'Malley to challenge old health-care models. The New Zealand College of [...]

PAY PARITY with district health board (DHB) nurses, an increase on allowances, appropriate progression through wage scales and healthy rostering were among the issues NZNO tabled at negotiations for prison [...]

WASHINGTON -- The American Psychiatric Association is putting out a call for much tighter integration of primary care and mental health care, saying that it will lead to better services [...]