How Will Health Policy Change After COVID-19?
COVID-19 highlights the importance of health policy change to socialize communicable disease costs, empower patients, and deregulate.
Patient Empowerment
-
Read more: How Will Health Policy Change After COVID-19? -
Read more: ‘Safe spaces’ in adverse health incident investigation and patient complaints ‘Safe spaces’ in adverse health incident investigation and patient complaints
By John Tingle Two new reports, one by Action against Medical Accidents,(AvMA),the charity for patient safety and justice and the other by the Patient’s Association charity, (PA), highlight once again significant problems with NHS (National Health Service) patient safety investigative and complaints structures and procedures. The Department of Health, (DH) in 2016 produced a consultation…
-
Read more: CMS Publishes Final Rule Revising and Expanding Conditions for HHA Participation in Medicare and Medicaid CMS Publishes Final Rule Revising and Expanding Conditions for HHA Participation in Medicare and Medicaid
By Wendy S. Salkin The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule concerning home health agencies on January 9th, “Medicare and Medicaid Program: Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies.” The rule has been a long time coming, since the proposed rules were set forth on October 9, 2014. This is the first…
-
Read more: New dimensions in patient consent to treatment New dimensions in patient consent to treatment
By John Tingle In the patient care equation doctors and nurses will always be in a more dominant and powerful position. They have the professional knowledge the patient needs, they are in their usual environment. The patient is ill, not in their usual environment and is often thinking the worst about their condition. The law…