This document summarises the main points which emerged from an exercise undertaken to establish the extent of work taking place in the area of contract specifications. Three regional health authorities (Trent, East Anglia and Wessex) and selected districts outside these regions with acknowledged track records in quality were targeted for ...
This report, by a Brunel team led by Professor Maurice Kogan, was commissioned by the King's Fund at the request of the Department of Health and financed by the Department. It describes the Management Advisory Service in the Oxford and South Western regions, and Performance Review in Wessex, in the ...
The use of the term "monitoring" in the health service or management context was usually taken to imply the development and establishment of certain standards of performance in a particular field, and a system to examine whether or not those standards had been met. The identification of adequate and realistic ...
In recent years there has been considerable discussion about how the National Training Scheme (NTS) has been run and how it might evolve in the future. Over the past eighteen months, Regional Supervisors responsible for organising the NTS in the four Thames and Wessex regions have met regularly at the ...