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Mashup Score: 1France to fine patients €5 for missing GP appointments - 1 month(s) ago
Proposed penalty, intended to boost creaking health service, is criticised by doctors’ unions and patients’ groups
Source: www.theguardian.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Health equity in Ireland: past, present, and future - 1 month(s) ago
In less than a decade, Ireland has seen many previously unimaginable developments, including the legalisation of same-sex marriage, the radical overhaul of the country’s archaic abortion law, and the beginnings of implementation of an ambitious plan to create a universally accessible health service. Set against a historical backdrop of political turmoil in a predominantly Catholic country, the coalition government, led by Leo Varadkar from 2017 to 2020, and again from late 2022 until his sudden resignation last week, must be given no small amount of credit for leading Ireland through policy changes focused on making the country a more equitable place, not least in terms of health.
Source: www.thelancet.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 4
Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia Region, Saima Wazed, has said that to fulfil the right to health, both health services and the underlying determinants should be available, accessible, acceptable, and of adequate quality. “Realizing the right to health for all…
Source: www.dhakatribune.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 502Arvind Kejriwal announces six guarantees; wife Sunita reads his message at the 'Maha rally' - 1 month(s) ago
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s wife, Sunita Kejriwal, read out a message from the AAP supremo at the INDIA bloc’s’maharally’ at Ramlila Maidan. Kejriwal addressed India’s pain and announced six guarantees, including 24/7 power supply, high-class schools, Mohalla clinic, multispeciality hospitals, and MSP for farmers.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 16Tories On Course To Win Fewer Than 100 Seats At The Election, According To New Mega-Poll - 1 month(s) ago
Rishi Sunak is set to lead his party to catastrophe.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.ukCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 217
AACs have come up on the lines of Mohalla Clinics, opened by AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government, and as per Punjab government claims “have improved the last mile delivery of health services for the common man.”
Source: www.hindustantimes.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 3Pharmacare Act a step toward universal care - 2 month(s) ago
Last week Canada took another major step forward truly universal healthcare with the tabling of the NDP’s Pharmacare Act.
Source: www.pentictonherald.caCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Liberals take first step toward pharmacare with bill for birth control, diabetes meds - 2 month(s) ago
The governing Liberals took their first major step toward national pharmacare Thursday as the health minister tabled a bill that paves the way for a universal drug program and secures NDP support in the House of Commons.
Source: www.cp24.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 4Health insurance expansion reduced height inequality in Europe - 2 month(s) ago
The third UN Millennium Development Goal seeks to ensure a healthy life “for all”. Using height inequality as an indicator, this column shows that the introduction of public health insurance schemes over the last 150 years substantially reduced health inequality. However, a variety of outcome measures are needed to monitor health inequality in order to devise policies that can reduce it.
Source: cepr.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 9Confronting the elephants in the room: reigniting momentum for universal health coverage - 2 month(s) ago
Universal health coverage (UHC) means, according to WHO’s definition, that “all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship”.1 Countries formally pledged to achieve UHC by 2030 through the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),2 and reinforced their commitments at two subsequent UN high-level meetings in 2019 and 2023.3 Yet progress towards UHC has not just stagnated, but deteriorated. Of 194 WHO member states, 108 countries have had worsening or no substantive change in health service coverage since the launch of the SDGs in 2015; only 42 countries of the 138 for which data are available have seen a reduction in catastrophic out-of-pocket health spending since 2000.
Source: www.thelancet.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
Fining people for missing GP appointments is plain stupidity as it will be ineffective, inefficient and woefully inequitable https://t.co/ARWG7rQFdZ