NICE work-providing guidance to the British National Health Service

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The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), a new part of the National Health Service (NHS), is responsible for advising health care professionals on the way to provide patients with clinical care of the highest attainable standard. It carries out its mission in three ways where the appraisals program assesses the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of drugs, devices, and diagnostic tools and provides advice on whether and how they should be used in the NHS

United Kingdom, Methods, Education, Powers and duties, Patients, Patient care, United Kingdom. National Institute for Clinical Excellence

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Health care in the 2004 presidential election

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The importance for voters of health care as an issue in the presidential election 2004 as to how this ranking compares with the importance of health care in past elections and which issues voters regard as the most important health care issues. It was found that health care issues did not appear likely to play a decisive role in the presidential election in 2004, but might make a difference in some swing states.

United States, Civil rights, Presidential elections

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A view from the periphery-health care in rural America

Article Abstract:

The relative shortage of health care professionals is one of the signature characteristics of the health care system in rural America. A concerted national policy to sustain strong rural health care institutions, and the personnel to staff them, would ensure that access to and quality of care does not lag behind those in urban areas.

Personnel administration, Evaluation, Recruiting, Industry hiring, Rural health services, America

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