PHYSICAL HEALTHCARE PROJECT

Physical Healthcare Project

Table Of Contents

Introduction3

Background5

Method7

Setting7

Audit criteria7

Sample10

Objectives11

Project Objectives11

Academic Objectives12

Personal Objectives12

Results13

Possible Reasons:13

Discussion15

Recommendations18

Interview20

Questionnaires21

Software's22

11. Appendix23

Physical Healthcare Project

Introduction

ICT is becoming a major part of the newly built health centre, computers are used all around the health centres in all different departments of centre in UK. The new ICT technology that has been introduced has helped most staff to carry out their daily tasks. On the other hand it has also lead to unemployment in certain departments. ICT will play a major part in the health centres future as doctors, receptionist etc are using more complex cures which can only be performed by machines and computers which both involve ICT. There are many benefits of ICT but there are also few drawbacks as there is for anything.

The whole point of creating this website is to build a new general practice website for The Fulham Medical Centre and to make it a friendly user for patients. Analytical the needs and interests of our specific audience is the first step to launching a successful website.

I think about where the user wants to go within our web site and make it easy for them to get there. “A successful website, obviously, is the one that is capable of attracting quality visitors and retain them” (Chatterjee, 2006). The content of a website is the key way of retaining visitors and giving them what they want without too much confusion to sort through.

Web readers are impatient and don't have time to sort through unnecessary information that doesn't relate to what they are looking for. Website quality may have a major impact on number of visitors. (Auger, 2005)

Background

Patients with mental illness are more likely to have serious physical comorbidity than the general population (Angst et al., 2002; Ösby et al., 2001). In particular, they have higher rates of cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction and are almost twice as likely to die from cardiovascular pathology (De Hert et al., 2009; Brown, 1997; Kilbourne et al., 2004; Carney et al., 2006; Osborn et al., 2007).

A substantial proportion of this disparity is likely to be related to a higher prevalence of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors. Patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are over one-and-a-half times more likely to smoke or suffer from obesity, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia than the general population (Angst et al., 2002). Lifestyle factors, including increased rates of smoking, and use of antipsychotic medications that promote weight gain, insulin resistance and lipid profile abnormalities may explain some of this is excess risk (Brown et al., 1999; Newcomer, 2005; Holt and Peveler, 2010; Osborn et al., 2006). A putative mechanism involving higher levels of circulating catecholamines and altered cytokine expression has also been put forward (Holt and Peveler, 2010).

Roberts et al. (2007) examined the primary care medical records of patients with schizophrenia and found that blood pressure and serum cholesterol were less likely to be recorded for this group than for the general population. In a prospective study of attendance for cardiovascular risk screening following formal invitation, Osborn et ...