... the application of an exploratory case study did not produce significant results. The exploratory case study involved two NHS Foundation Trust hospitals that were randomly selected in the North West of England. Results showed that the two healthcare maintenance managers who participated in the study lacked...

... framework. Research limitations/implications – The questionnaire requested participants to identify barriers to rather than CC enablers. Although this was at a single site complex organisation, it was similar to those throughout the NHS and other international health systems. Practical...

... the relationship between the NHS and the private healthcare sector, telling delegates of his confidence in the ability of the sector to continue to deliver additional capacity, in the wake of announcing the preferred bidders for contracts to run new independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs). The Government...

... © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> NHS Resources Modernization UK Report on NHS modernisation Keywords: NHS, Resources, Modernization In March, members of the NHS Modernisation Board presented the findings of their annual report into progress towards delivering...

... © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> NHS Care standards NHS Foundation Trusts Keywords: NHS, Care standards In December 2002 Health Secretary Alan Milburn published A Guide to NHS Foundation Trusts, which sets out details of the programme of decentralisation for NHS...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> General practitioners NHS Reports on quality Audit Commission UK Audit Commission Report on general practice in England Keywords: General practitioners, NHS, Reports on quality, Audit Commission The Audit Commission has published...

... The report A Spoonful of Sugar: Medicines Management in NHS Hospitalsis available from Audit Commission Publications. Tel: 0800 502030; a copy in pdf format can be downloaded from the Audit Commission Web site at http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/publications/spoonfulsugar.shtml...

... A joint Commission for Health Improvement (CHI)/Audit Commission report published in November, NHS Cancer Care in England and Wales, looks at how well the NHS has met the recommendations of the 1995 Calman Hine report on delivering local cancer services. It provides a baseline against...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Improvements in health care Government NHS UK annual report On the State of the Public Health Keywords: Improvements in health care,Government, NHS In December, the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Liam Donaldson, published his annual report...

...David J. Pitt Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust uses the European Business Excellence Model self‐assessment for continuous improvement. An outline of the key aspects of the model, an approach to TQM, is presented. This article sets out the context that led to the adoption...

...J. McCrindle; R.K. Jones The increase (28.8 per cent) in the number of complaints from pre‐New NHS Complaints Procedure to the implementation of the new procedures in 1996 is a matter of concern because it is estimated that the current figure represents only 40 per cent of the number of people...