Sauna Suits And Belts

A new type of Sauna belt has been launched recently. The function of these belts can be understood easily if they are called weight loss sauna belt. They are available with certain schemes.

The scheme will only pay if Kingston can is able to close some surgical beds and replace them with hotel beds. The idea of the pilot project is to find out the right equation. 60 per cent of the Kingston's general surgical patients at Kingston Hospital are treated as day cases, patients, which has reduced waiting lists from three years to six months over the past 10 years.

Jarrett estimates there are a further 20 per cent, who of patients who would be good candidates for day surgery if they had better home support or lived closer to the hospital. However, these are patients who stay overnight in hospital because of a lack of home support or because they live more than an hour's drive from hospital could be ideal hotel candidates.

The idea is that in a hospital hotel you do not need the intensive nursing staff; you cut these costs completely for this group of patients, which is where the great saving lies. It would be as if they were at home, they take their own tablets, go to a self service cafeteria for their meals or pay extra for room service. The only difference to staying in a hotel would be a button at the side of the bed which connects with a nurse on duty at reception.

Paul Jarrett, Kingston's director of surgical services, stresses that the concept is not a return to the old idea of a convalescence home. This arrangement would not be suitable for the chronically ill or anyone needing nursing care.

This week Michael Forsyth, the Scottish Office health minister, encouraged health boards in Scotland to provide hospital hotels. Commending Glasgow for blazing a trail he hoped others would follow. Having to remain on an acute ward can be an unnecessary restriction.

Last month The Greater Glasgow Health Board, the largest NHS authority in the country with 42 hospitals under its jurisdiction, has announced plans for a 64-bed, three-star hotel with en suite rooms in the grounds of the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. The plans have just gone out to tender, and it is hoped the three star hotel with en suite rooms, and a self service restaurant will be up and running by December 2008.

They be inviting a company to come in, build a hotel, and manage it and they'll pay so much a certain amount per patient. To make the scheme financially viable about 60, for eye patients, cancer patients and other general surgery will? The scheme has won the support of clinicians, who will recommend which patients are to be transferred out of wards to a hotel room.

The hotel will be linked to the hospital so in the event of an emergency a patient can be transferred back to a surgical bed very speedily. The scheme can be viewed as saving a lot of money, as well as releasing beds for patients who really do need treatment in hospital.