... be contacted at: f.e.macvanephipps@salford.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Education Collaboration Patient perspective Monitoring Antimicrobial resistance This issue of IJHG is all about the very serious global healthcare problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR...

... to have the highest survival rate in the country for cervical cancers, an effect that we attribute at least in part to the success of the screening programme and the rigour of the monitoring arrangements. We identified 23 antenatal screening programmes and 15 early childhood screening programmes...

...Linda Patterson The structures for inspecting and monitoring health care are changing, and the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI’s) work in involving patients and the public in assessing the delivery of medical care will evolve. Involving patients, encouraging better systems within trusts...

...C.A. Maxwell‐Armstrong; M. Jonas; S. Hussein; J. Wright; J.H. Scholefield Twenty‐four hour pH monitoring is an expensive, time‐consuming and uncomfortable investigation only necessary in a small proportion of patients with gastro‐oesophageal reflux disease. Guidelines have been published...

...Matthew J. Ridd Primary care practitioners in the UK today undertake more responsibility for the management of chronic diseases than ever before, including the monitoring of medications initiated in the secondary care setting. This has not necessarily been accompanied by the introduction...