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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 1345158" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>Crikey..I do think with ref to clinical outcomes in the UK that patients aren't aware of tertiary care being available if secondary care is failing them...</p><p></p><p>Also tertiary care is available only in few hospitals around the country. So people in these areas living are going to get better outcomes.</p><p></p><p>I can relate this back to myself and my diabetes.</p><p>2 hospitals and 1 pump manufacturer could not help me ref pump failure and what was happening. After brilliant advice from INPUT I was advised to ask for tertiary care. INPUT even gave me names of good clinical professors or honorary clinical staff to ask my GP to refer me to.</p><p>(The Manager from the 2nd failing diabetes hospital denied tertiary care was even available). When manager spoke to her colleagues and got back to me she said that she agreed to referal to new tertiary care hospital. She did not know that there was two options of referal a) the failing 2ndary hosp or the GP)....</p><p></p><p>So all the care consideration about UK, US and other countries may be also skewed upon where the patients lived and what hosptals they went to.</p><p></p><p>For the patient though... I think outcomesof health depends on where you live and whether your hospital is secondary or teriary care classified....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 1345158, member: 17713"] Crikey..I do think with ref to clinical outcomes in the UK that patients aren't aware of tertiary care being available if secondary care is failing them... Also tertiary care is available only in few hospitals around the country. So people in these areas living are going to get better outcomes. I can relate this back to myself and my diabetes. 2 hospitals and 1 pump manufacturer could not help me ref pump failure and what was happening. After brilliant advice from INPUT I was advised to ask for tertiary care. INPUT even gave me names of good clinical professors or honorary clinical staff to ask my GP to refer me to. (The Manager from the 2nd failing diabetes hospital denied tertiary care was even available). When manager spoke to her colleagues and got back to me she said that she agreed to referal to new tertiary care hospital. She did not know that there was two options of referal a) the failing 2ndary hosp or the GP).... So all the care consideration about UK, US and other countries may be also skewed upon where the patients lived and what hosptals they went to. For the patient though... I think outcomesof health depends on where you live and whether your hospital is secondary or teriary care classified.... [/QUOTE]
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