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Innovating for Health
In the EU, there is a growing consensus across Europe about the need for urgent reconfiguration of health care. Critically, the acute hospital model is costly and economically unsustainable in its present form. Evidence suggests that technology growth is contributing significantly to polarisation of services. It will transform and accelerate the capacity to transfer more […]
July 2017
Patient-oriented health care
Cancer as an episodic and chronic illness places new demands on patients and families to manage their own care, and it challenges old care paradigms. A multidisciplinary approach to treatment and survivorship care is needed in which personalised care based on the needs of the patient is the starting point. There are several challenges here: surviving cancer is not easy […]
July 2017