Foundation trusts

Meeting the needs of patients: Improving strategic planning in NHS foundation trusts

Do clinicians receive adequate training to identify trafficked persons? A scoping review of NHS Foundation Trusts

OBJECTIVE We investigate whether physicians in secondary care in the English NHS receive adequate training to recognise and appropriately refer for services those persons suspected to be victims of human trafficking. DESIGN Freedom of Information requests were sent to the 105 England's NHS Trusts delivering acute care in England. SETTING NHS Trusts providing secondary care in England. PAR...

Who Trusts Others?

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: (i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; (ii) belonging to a group that historically felt discriminated against, such as minorities (blacks in particular) and, to a lesse...

Commissioning from specialist children's trusts.

Health Secretary, threw the phrase " children's trusts " into the arena of public debate when he addressed a national social services conference in Cardiff on 16 October 2002. He said: " I intend to create specialist children's trusts to jointly plan, commission, finance, and, where it makes sense, deliver children's services. Children's trusts which commission services will be based in local c...

Care trusts: partnership working in action

Parallel tetramolecular quadruplexes may be formed with short oligodeoxynucleotides bearing a block of three or more guanines. We analyze the properties of sequence variants of parallel quadruplexes in which each guanine of the central block was systematically substituted with a different base. Twelve types of substitutions were assessed in more than 100 different sequences. We conducted a comp...