The Quality Assurance Project was set up at the end of 1984 to stimulate the assessment and promotion of quality in health care in Britain. This report presents the findings of a survey undertaken to identify what practical steps were being taken by individual professional organisations (colleges) and to make ...
Increasing interest in the quality of health services and the appointment of officers with designated local responsibilities has generated an urgent demand for ideas on implementing quality assurance, especially from district officers. This collection is one individual's view of relevant literature and activity. It reflects the initial emphasis of the ...
This is a review of recent British initiatives based upon the principles of "An ordinary life", for both children and adults with learning difficulties. Key issues discussed include establishing commitment to basic principles, planning comprehensive services, acquiring appropriate housing, financing and staffing the residential service, operational policies and management, staff ...
This information sheet provides basic information on evaluation and includes a consideration of quantitative versus qualitative data, the Hawthorne effect, reducing bias and ethical issues
This book provides the results of a confidential enquiry into perioperative deaths conducted with the collaboration of both the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Association of Anaesthetists. The overall findings are reassuring, although several less than satisfactory practices are revealed. The conduct and outcome of ...