A National Service Plan for our graduates

Preparing our graduates for a lifetime of learning.

In a recent Viewpoint, LucindaMaine described how our graduates would be practicing in 2015. As we educate our graduates to become effective practitioners 10, 20, and 30 years from now, one of themost powerful tools we can help them develop is the skills to continue and direct their own learning. The recent developments concerning continuing professional development emphasize that our graduates...

selective dissemination of information: proposal for a national plan

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A plan for 'responsible national health insurance'.

Prologue: In December 1975, at a hearing convened by a House health panel, Chairman Paul Rogers declared: “Today the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment begins its consideration of national health insurance–a concept which was articulated more than 25 years ago by President Truman and one which, as health care costs spiral and as more and more gaps in health care coverage are identified,...

Improving air quality: national plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide in our towns and cities

The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change welcomes this opportunity to respond to Defra/DfT consultation on its Air Quality Plan for tackling nitrogen dioxide emissions in the UK. The draft plan rightly notes that poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK and disproportionately impacts vulnerable groups, including the elderly, children and people already suffe...

National Plan for Rare Diseases