Sentence examples for increased appointments from inspiring English sources

Staff and patients at all three practices appreciated the availability of interns for increased appointments.

Dame Barbara Hakin, an ex-GP and NHS England's national director of commissioning operations, makes clear in it that in distributing the money "the key metrics for prioritisation will be: access to general practice, including increased appointment and patient contact time; and/or reduction in emergency attendance or admission to hospital of over-75s".

We estimated the functional relationship between spending on these visits and increased appointment attendance (adherence).

Patients reported wanting increased appointment availability and flexibility, and more sessions.

Cross-infection control procedures may be another possible source of influence on productivity associated with either increased appointment or change-over times.

Several studies in other areas of health care have indicated that SMS reminders can increase appointment attendance rates [ 28- 31].

Although the evidence is mixed as to whether a text message or e-mail is any better than a phone call for increasing appointment adherence, digital messaging has advantages over phone calls.

13 28 One study estimated that infants born to mothers who smoked 20 or more cigarettes per day, cost £462 extra through increased inpatient appointments when compared with infants not exposed to smoke during pregnancy.

Others felt that additional workload in the short term would be reduced in the future if screening leads to earlier diagnosis of bowel cancer and better polyp surveillance: Most pilot GPs, like the non-pilot GPs, had anticipated an increase in workload in terms of increased patient appointments.

The total additional cost per woman ultimately attending these appointment types increased for subsequent appointments and was: R13.6, R35.4, R46.6, and R38.0, respectively.

The aim of this study was to discern whether the CD4 nurse intervention increased MD/MO appointment availability and improved the rate at which HAART-eligible patients start ARV treatment.