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The National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) provides toxicological information to health professionals to ensure patients receive appropriate treatment. [28] NPIS do not take calls from the general public, [ 29 ] who are instead advised to contact the non-emergency 111 number for specific information on poisons, or 999 in an emergency.
Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a contractual system within the NHS internal market of the English National Health Service.The system was introduced under the Labour administration in 2009/10 under the name "Any Willing Provider" and was accelerated under the coalition Government which formed in 2010.
In August 1962 the Ministry of Health announced it was forming a poisons information service. This was after the Emergency Treatment in Hospital of Cases of Acute Poisoning published by the Central Health Services Council in March 1962. Many more household chemicals were on the market, and the chemical composition was only known to the ...
Independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) are private-sector owned treatment centres contracted within the English National Health Service to treat NHS patients free at the point of use. They are sometimes referred to as 'surgicentres' or 'specialist hospitals'.
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Treatment and prevention of bleeding episodes is done primarily by replacing the missing blood clotting factors using "synthetic" or "non-human derived" factor products such as recombinant factor VIII. [24] Factor products work by replacing the missing factor proteins, which can take place at home or in hospital. In the 1970s, haemophiliacs ...
"The NHS improvement plan 2004", which also aimed to reduce waiting times for treatment and increase patient choice. It also listed disease prevention, inequalities and chronic conditions as priorities. [14] "Our health, our care, our say 2006", that emphasised a move from hospital care to the community, with an accompanying shift in funding. [14]
National Health Service (Fund-Holding Practices) (Applications and Recognition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1754) National Health Service (Determination of Regions and Districts) Amendment Order 1990 ( S.I. 1990/1755 )