Warlow Charles, Humphrey Peter, Venables Graham
Western General Hospital NHS Trust, Edinburgh.
Clin Med (Lond). 2002 Sep-Oct;2(5):436-9. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-5-436.
In the UK, most patients admitted to hospital with acute neurological problems are not looked after or even seen by a consultant neurologist. As a result, the outcome of their care may be suboptimal. The Association of British Neurologists believes that, in order to provide a reasonable service, the number of consultant neurologists will have to increase more than threefold, to about 1,400. This should be achievable in the next 10-15 years and would bring UK neurological services up to the standards that already obtain in comparable European countries.
在英国,大多数因急性神经问题入院的患者并没有得到神经科会诊医生的照料,甚至连会诊医生都没见过他们。因此,他们的护理效果可能并不理想。英国神经科医生协会认为,为了提供合理的服务,神经科会诊医生的数量必须增加两倍多,达到约1400名。这在未来10至15年内应该是可以实现的,届时英国的神经科服务将达到欧洲可比国家现有的标准。