The UKBA said it met local authorities before the raid so they could arrange alternative care.
Possible solutions include diverting patients to "alternative care settings" and cutting non-emergency calls to 999.
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Nottinghamshire County Council moved 25 residents at Hazelford Ferry Care Home in Bleasby to alternative care homes because of the high risk of flooding in the area.
Nottinghamshire County Council said it planned to move 25 residents at Hazelford Ferry Care Home in Bleasby to alternative care homes because of a risk of flooding in the area.
Affected employees of the Silkroute Holdings Internet company were told they could take paid time off to sort out alternative care for their children without having to use up their vacation.
"Additional improvements include the development of an enhanced clinical service over the telephone to avoid taking patients unnecessarily to hospital and the development of a range of alternative care pathways to support patients receiving care at home or within the community, " the spokesperson said.
If the trend holds, alternative health care in the new millennium may become just that - a truly viable alternative.
Asian companies are also eyeing the booming market in the West, where alternative health care is becoming increasingly popular.
Retainer-based direct primary care is exploding around the country providing an alternative for primary care physicians to the insurance bureaucracy laden model most practice in.
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If Krugman wants to create a straw man alternative to Obama Care, he should look at the status quo, not at what Romney may or may not do as President.
Devon County Council said that with one of the oldest populations in the UK, helping people to live independently for as long as possible was a "real alternative to residential care".
America needs universal health care, alternative energy and to bring the troops home from Iraq with honour.
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Flintshire council said it will work with the health board and home staff to "ensure residents receive appropriate on-going care whilst alternative arrangements are put in place".
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Goldstein has inspired fanatical devotion in pet lovers with his alternative approach to veterinary care: herbs, supplements, vitamins, homeopathic remedies and acupuncture as opposed to the staples of conventional care--antibiotics, steroids, cortisone injections.
He says he wants a big new alternative energy plan, new health care benefits, and more money for education.
Others worry that people who cannot afford expensive care may see no alternative to their predicament other than suicide.
"You get a state of suspended animation and the creatures do not pass away, and that's the basis of what we see as an alternative way to think about critical care medicine, " Roth says.
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I'm wondering, as a practitioner of Oriental medicine, knowing that the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization has discovered through their studies that alternative medicine often is more cost-effective and very effective, how will alternative medicine fit in your new health care program?
Especially since the alternative would often be more costly nursing home care.
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He currently works as an Independent consultant focusing on the areas of health care, early childhood development, alternative energy and the expansion of grassroots politics around the world.
If the U.S. ignores the innovation and alternative delivery models that are advancing mental health care in other parts of the world, the cost will continue to be measured in American lives.
Before proceeding, their condition would have to be independently assessed by two doctors as well as other healthcare professionals and they would have to be informed about alternative treatments and end-of-life care options.
"We need a joined up system for our young people, and rather than them seeing a number of specialists in a variety of settings, we need to explore alternative approaches which bring together the focus of care, education, and health services around the child and the family, " he said.
Most care homes and an increasingly significant amount of home care is delivered by 24, 000 alternative providers.
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In most cases, this will be reassurance, in some cases a careful history and examination, perhaps leading to an alternative diagnosis, and an established relationship with a health care provider, someone who will be available if the symptoms don't clear up.
Employees, Martingale notes, rejected health maintenance organizations as a way to ration care, and employers are rightfully leery of the other alternative--government rationing.
Their alternative to Clinton's miserly budget would expand access to outpatient care for an additional 200, 000 vets and add to the types of care available to them.
"Yet, the irony is, our current health care system has all of the incentives towards that more intense alternative, " he says.
In Britain and Australia, horrified scientists are fighting hard against the teaching of alternative therapies in publicly funded universities and against their provision in mainstream medical care.
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