Penny J Rhodes

..Gaining access does not mean that needs will be met appropriately, and patients vary in the extent to which they are able and enabled to play an active role in obtaining the services they need...

..In 2005, guidance on how to prevent wrong site surgery in the form of a national safety alert was issued to all NHS hospital trusts in England and Wales by the National Patient Safety Agency...

..Policy initiatives designed to deliver what is considered best-evidenced practice are modified in the micro context of the interactions of the consultation...

..We studied the use of biomedicine, complementary and alternative medicine, and ethnomedicine in a sample of people with epilepsy of South Asian origin living in the north of England...

..Rather than conceiving of disability as primarily physical or primarily social, it would be better construed as a complex interweaving of multiple factors--physical, environmental, socio-cultural and psychological factors...

..Many patients nonetheless received poor quality care, although this appeared to be related less to language difficulties than to professional attitudes and methods of working...

..To examine the beliefs and experiences of South Asians with epilepsy and the extent of provision of appropriate information and accessible services for them by health professionals...

..However, little is known about their religious beliefs in relation to epilepsy and the type of South Asian therapies that they use to treat the condition...

..Traditional means of meeting this demand rely on GP referral of patients to see a nephrologist. Hospital assessment may be inconvenient for patients and inefficient for health services...

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