Explain how services are commissioned‚ procured and funded. A commissioned service means that the care‚ support or supervision has been arranged and paid for on the service user’s behalf. This will be paid for by the local authority health and social care department. Commissioning is a cycle when a local authority’s‚ at a strategic level‚ decides which care and support it should design‚ deliver‚ monitor and evaluate through a contractual arrangement. It is a way of assessing needs‚ planning and
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Space exploration is a highly debated topic on whether or not it should be funded by the government. Currently‚ the United States spends $19.3 billion on space exploration out of its $3.95 trillion budget. Many people argue that the money needs to be spent on other issues like health care and help for the impoverished. Space exploration is an important field that the US government needs to focus on and fund because these endeavors can provide a national space defense‚ push us towards the future of
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CHAPTER 6 Ambulatory Care Chapter Objectives After completing this chapter‚ the reader should have an understanding of: • The definition of ambulatory care. • The variety of settings for the delivery of ambulatory care. • The importance of ambulatory care services as a part of the U.S. health care system. a number of other ways ambulatory care is delivered‚ and they are described in this chapter. In recent years the number and type of ambulatory or outpatient facilities have increased to
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Embryonic Stem Cell Research Should Be Federally Funded The undifferentiated cells of a human embryo‚ referred to as stem cells‚ hold limitless promise for medical research. When a human embryo consists of not more than 64 cells‚ its cells are able to learn new ways of being. If injected into a diseased kidney‚ they take on many of the properties of ordinary kidney cells‚ and may help the kidney to perform its normal function. This seems to hold for any organ‚ even any kind of cell. (Goldstein)
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Should NASA continue to be funded by the U.S government? Remember the “Space Race” against Russia? What would have happened if we had shut down NASA before that? Getting a man to the moon was a Cold War victory! Shutting down funding for space exploration would be utterly devastating. Did you know that we can do research in space that we can’t do on earth? In space‚ we can understand more about gravity‚ and how machines work in different conditions‚ special medical research can be done in space
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Most ADRs that occur either in the hospital settings or ambulatory care are preventable. ADRs occur commonly in older outpatients with a reported prevalence ranging between 5% and 35%. 34 – 36 In the United States‚ ADR – related morbidity and mortality costs have been estimated at US $30 billion to US $ 13 billion annually 37‚ 38 which has increased up to $177.4 billion in the year 2000. 37 ADRs result in increased healthcare costs. These events have been shown to increase cost by $3‚244 per ADR
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The main purpose for ambulatory care is to bring cheaper and easier access to health care. Patients no longer have to stay overnight in hospitals. Ambulatory care allows every patient to be treated like an outpatient. With ambulatory care‚ hospitals are not overcrowded and are not the only place to receive medical attention. Ambulatory care offers all kinds of different services that do not require major medical attention. Basically ambulatory care offers medical service for those that are poor
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English 102 5 August 2010 Should NASA Continue to be Public Funded In the early morning of February 1st‚ 2003‚ the US watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over the blue Texas sky (Simberg). The wreckage of the ship and the remains of her seven crew members were strewn all across Texas and parts of Louisiana. Even the most staunch NASA believers contemplated their support for the agency as fire rained from the sky. It had been nearly 17 years since the last fatal disaster
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Ambulatory care consists of health care services that warranted an overnight stay in the hospital. Today‚ ambulatory care encompasses an expanding and broad array of services rather than just visits to private physicians’ offices and hospital outpatient clinics. Several factors have influenced the shift from inpatient hospitalization to ambulatory services such as‚ technological advancements‚ financial mandates‚ cost considerations‚ conveniently located facilities‚ and the entry of physicians into
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to be completely unprepared. Emergency services are available for every kind of situation‚ and you should have no problem getting an emergency plumber for problems such as a backed up sewer‚ a leaking water heater or when your boiler stops working. Having a professional plumber in your contact list can really spare you a lot of trouble in an emergency. However‚ you also need to take some things into consideration before you choose your emergency plumber. How much will it cost? Your first response
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