BUPA HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
- CATHEDRAL ROAD
CF11 9HA CARDIFF, SOUTH GLAMORGAN
Phone: +44 (0) 800 0323355
www.bupa.co.uk
Short profile:
Across the world, we are at a pivotal moment in healthcare driven by four key challenges.
As a consequence of improved healthcare and living standards, many more people are living longer, which has given rise to new patterns of disease. These ageing populations have triggered a rethink of traditional approaches to the delivery of healthcare services for older people.
The sharp rise in the numbers of people living longer coincides with significant growth in the numbers living with chronic disease. This has led to a shift away from the 20th century focus on infectious diseases to a 21st century focus on the treatment and management of chronic illnesses.
Detailed description:
At the same time, expectations about healthcare are changing wholesale. Increasingly, individuals want choice and control over their treatment and care, and the focus is shifting away from the quantity of interventions to the quality of outcome.
For many governments, this is a key driver for new healthcare measures (and payment systems) based on outcomes not activity and of exploration of new funding models, such as personal budgets.
For clinicians, this means looking at how to better support individuals to make informed healthcare decisions which will deliver the outcome patients want.
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