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Choosing Health? Choosing a Better Diet: A consultation on priorities for a food
This consultation document, Choosing a Better Diet presents an important opportunity to identify action and clarify roles and responsibilities for improving diet and nutrition, within the context of the overall health improvement debate set by Choosing Health?
Clean Hospitals
Patients expect certain things of the NHS. They expect high quality care in hospitals that are clean, tidy and welcoming. They do not expect dirty wards, smelly toilets, shabby surroundings or poor food. The NHS Plan placed great emphasis on getting these basic things right and the NHS was asked in July 2000 to implement the “Clean Hospitals” programme.
Clinical governance
Clinical governance is the system through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care, by creating an environment in which clinical excellence will flourish.
Commission for Health Improvement
The Commission for Health Improvement - aiming to improve the quality of patient health care in the NHS
Committee on Health and Children - Rep-Childhoood default
The Joint Committee on Health and Children was established in November 1997. As part of its work programme for 2000 and 2001, the Joint Committee decided to examine the issue of childhood vaccination, to include an examination of current vaccination policy and practices, poor take-up rates and public concerns about the risks and adverse effects of vaccination.
Craigavon & Banbridge Community HSS Trust
The Craigavon & Banbridge Community Health and Social Services Trust was established in April 1994. It is responsible for the management of a range of community health and social care services and also for purchasing similar services from the independent and community/voluntary agencies. The Trust covers the Craigavon Borough Council and Banbridge District Council. This is largely rural with the principal towns being Banbridge, Lurgan and Portadown
Cumbria & Lancashire SHA website
Welcome to Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) - where you can find information about the SHA and our work with local Trusts. We were formed in April 2002 to oversee all the Primary Care, Hospital, Ambulance, Mental Health and Learning Disability Trusts in East Lancashire, Chorley, Preston, Morecambe Bay, West Lancashire, the Fylde Coast and North Cumbria.
Decontamination of Surgical Instruments and Other Medical Devices
Decontamination is the combination of processes, including cleaning, disinfection and/or sterilisation, used to render a re-useable medical device (e.g. surgical instrument) safe for further use
Delivering IT in the NHS: a summary of the national programme for IT in the NHS
Delivering the NHS Plan develops the vision already set out in The NHS Plan of a "service designed around the patient". Patients will be offered more choice of where and when they get treatment. IT in the NHS will support that vision and empower both patients and professionals by offering explicit choice, for example with information about capacity and performance.
Department of Health - National Service Frameworks
The New NHS and A First Class Service introduced a range of measures to raise quality and decrease variations in service including National Service Frameworks (NSFs) The NHS Plan re-emphasised the role of NSFs as drivers in delivering the Modernisation Agenda
Department of Health Website
Our aim is to improve the health and well-being of people in England. Here you will find the latest on the Department's work, as well as health and social care guidance, publications and policy.
Department of Health: Gene Therapy Advisory Committee
To consider and advise on the acceptability of proposals for gene therapy research on human subjects, on ethical grounds, taking account of the scientific merits of the proposals and the potential benefits and risks.
Department of Health: Health and Social Care Joint Unit: Hospital Discharge Hand
Admission to and discharge from hospital can be a distressing time for individuals, their families and friends. The workbook provides professionals with guidance and practical tools in a way that allows them to focus on those areas that are presenting them with challenges at a local level.
Department of Health: Raising Standards across the NHS
This document marks the next step towards achieving the NHS Plan vision. By 2008 the Government intends that all NHS hospitals will be demonstrating consistently high levels of performance so that they all have the opportunity of becoming NHS Foundation Trusts, empowered to deliver for local people, and accountable to them. It also means ensuring every Primary Care Trust has the capacity and capability to use their control over NHS resources to commission local services for the maximum benefit of local communities.
Department of Health: Standing Medical Advisory Committee
The SNMAC is one of a number of committees established to offer independent advice to ministers. SNMAC's role is to concentrate on specific strategic issues identified by members as particularly significant to the medical profession.
Disability Rights Commission
The Disability Rights Commission site explains the rights of people with disabilities under the Disability Discrimination Act and the role of the DRC in relation to this.
Dorset and Somerset Health Community
The Dorset and Somerset Health Community website provides quicker access to health information in Dorset and Somerset, with information about the Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority.
Dumfries And Galloway Strategy for Nursing and Midwifery
Welcome to the web site of the Dumfries and Galloway strategy for nursing and midwifery project board. The main purpose of the site is to let you know about the work of the project board and to keep you in touch with what's happening across Dumfries and Galloway regarding the implementation of the national strategy for nursing and midwifery.
EPSRC Website
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences.
East London and The City Health Authority
East London and The City Health Authority (ELCHA) was formed on 1 April 1996 following the merger of the former District Health Authority and Family Health Services Authority. The Health Authority has a statutory responsibility to secure through the resources available the greatest possible improvement in the physical and mental health of the people of East London and the City by promoting health, preventing ill-health, diagnosing and treating disease and injury and care for those with long-term illness and disability.
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority
Our purpose is to: improve the health of the 741,000 people in East Sussex, Brighton and Hove as much as we can within the resources we are given, reduce health inequalities, and ensure that local health services respond to the needs of patients.
