Different Methods - Similar Results
From today's Telegraph we find The following account of poor care in the U.K.
Thousands of patients are being denied the best treatment by the NHS because a third of hospital trusts say they have too little money to follow best practice, the Government's spending watchdog said yesterday.
Only 25 per cent of the trusts surveyed could verify that they were implementing Nice appraisals of drugs and treatments within three months. A third said they had been unable to fund guidance issued by Nice in 2002-03.
Is this really much different from the Medicare programs and many insurance companies which pay for 'hands on' care but not for advice and consultation, which is often more effective than pills, for chronc diseases?