This report looks at how the Patients' Charter has worked in the past and and what patients and NHS staff would like to see covered in a future health charter. It is based on research commissioned by the NHS Executive and the King's Fund to help the Labour government review ...
This research was carried out at the request of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Services department to complement the work undertaken by the King's Fund for the NHS Executive on the English Patient's Charter. The aims were to establish whether patients, carers and staff views and experiences of the ...
The conference examined cancer as a genetic disease and presented papers on recent genetic research and gene therapy. The implications of the `new genetics' from an ethical, legal and insurance point of view were considered. The conference also explored the implications of recent developments in genetic research for general practice ...