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Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg
November 2024
Regional OMFS Unit, Aintree Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool L9 7AL United Kingdom. Electronic address:
In the UK Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) and Oral Surgery (OS) are distinct specialties governed respectively by the General Medical Council (GMC) and General Dental Council (GDC) respectively. There has always been overlap of training and care between both specialties. The OMFS curriculum was updated in 2021 and the Oral Surgery Curriculum in 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
December 2024
Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford, UK.
Objective: Babies born between 27 and 31 weeks of gestation contribute substantially towards infant mortality and morbidity. In England, their care is delivered in maternity services colocated with highly specialised neonatal intensive care units (NICU) or less specialised local neonatal units (LNU). We investigated whether birth setting offered survival and/or morbidity advantages to inform National Health Service delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Law Rev
December 2024
University of Bristol, University of Bristol Business School, Bristol, UK.
System-level decisions around the commissioning and provision of healthcare services in England have contributed to barriers in accessing the National Health Service. In this article, we ask how to better regulate resource allocation to ensure greater equity in access to healthcare services. First, we focus on the Health and Care Act 2022, which, drawing on principles of deliberative regulation to address health inequalities, initiates a shift away from previous regulatory approaches towards a collaborative decision-making model.
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December 2024
School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
Structural violence - related to 'isms' like racism, sexism, and ableism - pertains to the ways in which social institutions harm certain groups. Such violence is critical to institutional indifference to the plight of ethnic minority people living with long-term health conditions. With only emergent literature on the lived experiences of ethnic minorities with Long Covid, we sought to investigate experiences around the interplay of illness and structural vulnerabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPublic Health Res (Southampt)
September 2024
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Background: Sex workers' risk of violence and ill-health is shaped by their work environments, community and structural factors, including criminalisation.
Aim: We evaluated the impact of removing police enforcement on sex workers' safety, health and access to services.
Design: Mixed-methods participatory study comprising qualitative research, a prospective cohort study, mathematical modelling and routine data collation.
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