Personalised medicine, April 2009

Documents to download

Approved work: Winter mortality

This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality. It will outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths.
- Health and social care
Approved work: regional differences in healthy life expectancy

This POSTnote will assess the evidence on interventions for increasing healthy life expectancy, and reducing regional differences across England.
- Health and social care
Virtual wards and hospital at home

Virtual wards aim to provide hospital level healthcare in patients' homes. What are the opportunities and risks for patients, carers and the NHS?
- Health and social care