She said the hospice treats about 300 in-patients and 600 out-patients in a year.
The centre has bed space for almost 100 in-patients but treats many more who return for rehabilitation.
This June alone, 44 injured service personnel were treated as in-patients at Selly Oak, and 15 as out-patients.
What is more, in-patients only represent a small number of overall hospital users.
It would support day patients and in-patients and include 16 bedrooms, a chapel, day centre, and therapy and counselling rooms.
Hospitals are still allowed to sell drugs to in-patients but out-patients must take the prescription and go to a drugstore.
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It would have supported day patients and in-patients and include 16 bedrooms, a chapel, day centre, and therapy and counselling rooms.
Many of these units will have experts on site to see children during the day rather than taking in-patients as they do now.
Acute care for mental health in-patients at Downe Hospital and the Ulster Hospital could be transferred as part of an overhaul of services at the facilities.
Two of the three options involve moving all or the majority of in-patients to Prospect Park while the third is to build a new mental health unit in Slough.
"They particularly target frequent users, such as those visiting in-patients and those suffering from cancer, and they are socially regressive, falling relatively harder on the poor than the rich, " he continued.
He explained they already treated all in-patients in individual rooms without exposing them to other patients and out-patient clinics were set up so individuals did not have direct contact with each other.
Andrew Husband, principle lecturer in pharmacy at the University of Sunderland and lead on the Gateshead study said allergies were a significant cause of avoidable adverse drug reactions among hospital in-patients each year.
Emergency cases would be taken to Gloucester while specialist nurses - capable of treating the majority of walk-in patients - would staff an Emergency Care Centre at Cheltenham.
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Within 120 days of starting treatment there were 4691 hospitalizations for acute kidney injury in patients without pre-existing kidney disease and 1896 hospitalizations in patients with pre-existing disease.
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Particularly worrying: Bacteria called staphylococci, which cause many of the deadliest infections that occur in already-sick patients in hospitals, are becoming resistant to existing drugs.
They believe it could become the first effective treatment for the condition which affects one-in-five patients in intensive care.
Based on the new resultsRoche is planning to launch a late-stage trial of its PD-L1 inhibitor in lung-cancer patients, while Bristol-Myers is moving its combination regimen into late-phase studies as well.
Nissen then walked through a series of slides arguing diabetes drugs are approved with almost no long-term data in patients with heart disease--even though, after approval, heart patients get the drugs for a long time.
The trials will examine whether the drug works both in patients with the bad gene and in high-risk patients without the gene.
Thirdly, to ensure the services GPs are offering are the right ones, young patients should be involved - alongside other patients - in decisions about the services their GP surgery provides.
He said it only affected "blue light" attendances during these hours, and walk-in patients would continue to be seen at Cheltenham 24-hours-a-day.
However, they suggested using the drug may need to be reappraised in high-risk patients such as those with wet AMD in one eye already.
For instance, AstraZeneca's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) Seroquel is often used for its sleep-promoting or calming effect. (see: " Antipsychotic Prescribed as Sleeping Pill") Eli Lilly 's (nyse: LLY - news - people ) Zyprexa has even been used in rare cases in patients with anorexia--one of the drug's potential side effects is weight gain.
These drugs, called statins, can cut heart attacks by one third or more in at-risk patients, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives a year in the United States alone.
Meanwhile, Dr. Allayee at USC plans to begin a 200-patient clinical trial testing whether leukotriene blockers like Singulair can prevent atherosclerosis in high-risk patients, as soon as he can obtain government funding.
's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor or Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor cut the odds of heart attack or stroke in high-risk patients by a third, but they also can cause side effects that destroy muscle tissue and, eventually, the liver.
In stark contrast to ImClone, which rashly tested Erbitux in only 120 patients with no control group, AstraZeneca enrolled 2, 000 patients in late-stage trials to compare how long patients survive on a combination of chemotherapy and Iressa versus chemo and a placebo.
The most prominent of these is a University of Virginia study of nearly 900, 000 patients, published in Annals of Surgery, showing that surgical patients on Medicaid endured a 97 percent higher likelihood of in-hospital death than patients with private insurance and a 13 percent greater chance of death than those with no insurance at all.
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