Work in healthcare?

Scott560 · Post by **Scott560** » Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:12 am

No its not SWIFT or caretrack...

Its purely the finance side , at the local authorities dealing with payments and charging. Not something id ever even thought of until i started working there a year ago, and its pretty complicated!

Post by **Donald** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:31 pm

So another month has passed and I'm yet to start the work I was supposed to do on this topic... due in 2 weeks

Looking for your views on:

Regenerative medicine
Personalised drugs
Gene therapy
Expectations of medical advances within say the next 5-10 years
Transhumanism

And the ethical concerns and financial considerations of the above on public healthcare.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:23 pm

Donald wrote:Looking for your views on:

Regenerative medicine
Personalised drugs
Gene therapy
Expectations of medical advances within say the next 5-10 years
Transhumanism

And the ethical concerns and financial considerations of the above on public healthcare.

Big, big issues, and hard to react to them in a way that makes sense without a lot of thought.
The first two are perhaps the easiest.

Regenerative medicine, at least in the form of stem cell therapy, is likely to develop more and more as various national authorities relax their rules. Any ethical considerations and/or objections will gradually fade away.

I can't see that personalised drugs will do anything other than become more and more common, principally in the private sector. Financial pressures on public healthcare will continue to influence a 'one size fits all' approach.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:32 pm

I used to go to Medica every year.
This is the world's biggest medical trade fair and take place in Duesseldorf in November. It's a great place to find out how suppliers are thinking, particularly in hardware.

The timing's a bit skew for you now, I guess, but you might get something out of a trawl through last year's exhibitors
http://www.medica-tradefair.com/cipp/md ... ducts.html

and conferences
http://www.medica-tradefair.com/cipp/md ... orums.html

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:21 pm

I can't say that I know enough about any of those topics for my opinion on them to be worthwhile. I'm ashamed to say that I probably haven't read up on any of those subjects since my A levels, even though they're something that would interest me.

I think the primary concern for public healthcare in adopting treatments/procedures will always be cost. The commissioning bodies are always looking for the most cost effective treatments which will help the majority of the population which that body serves, and will procure them from the local hospital trust who can provide the required service levels at the best value for money. Whilst there is provision for people to apply for specialist treatments on an individual basis, the harsh reality is that there isn't infinite financial resource and so more often than not its a case of helping the many over funding a treatment that may potentially save/prolong the life of just one person. It's sad, and I know plenty of people who have bad sentiments towards the NHS because of course when it's a sick relative we want them helped with no expense spared and to be denied that is heart wrenching, but the reality is there's lots of people in the same position and with a finite budget you can only commission services that will help the most people pound for pound.

prelude91 · Post by **prelude91** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:22 pm

B/H, Donald, what you studying?

Post by **Donald** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:31 pm

Unfamiliar with B/H?

Biomedicine.

prelude91 · Post by **prelude91** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:37 pm

Bloody Hell. And Bloody Hell. Either way, can't help with the research. H.N.C.s were hard enough work for me.

Post by **Donald** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:45 pm

Ah I see! I shot myself in the foot really... I decided on the content of this essay because I like a challenge... I'm almost a third of the way into the word limit just on the abstract/intro.

Post by **Donald** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:47 pm

prelude91 wrote:Either way, can't help with the research.

And of course you can

I'm sure you have an opinion on something. For example how would you feel if you had the money and the tech existed for you to have a bank of synthetic organs on standby, whilst people on waiting lists for donors are dying?