Griffiths inquiry into NHS Efficiency

‘Searching for the People in Charge’: Appraising the 1983 Griffiths NHS Management Inquiry

This is the first of two related articles in the present volume which examine the recent history of health services management using the case of the British National Health Service (NHS). In the historiography of the NHS the 1980s is widely seen as a watershed, when public policy first sought to introduce market disciplines into its operation. Administrative and managerial reforms were central ...

National Inquiry into Fit for Purpose Governance in the NHS

The Inquiry into Lathyrism

and Major Andrew Buchanau, m.d., i.m.s., and Mr. Stockman, M.R.C.V.S., late Professor of Pathology in the Veterinary College, Edinburgh, have been appointed to conduct the inquiry.* We have before us an outline for the inquiry drawn up by Major Andrew Buchanan, which admirably sums up the prevailing views and opinions on the nature and causation of this strange and interesting disease. Lathyris...

An inquiry into the concept of information poverty

Background and Aim: The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of information poverty, its levels and its causes in society    Methods: The article is a review-analytical paper.  Results: The findings show that information poverty is part of the larger problem of poverty and results from socioeconomic, educational and infrastructural issues. Information poverty can be discussed at mac...

Inquiry into Scientific Correctness of the Elementary School Farsi Textbooks

Inquiry into Scientific Correctness of the Elementary School Farsi Textbooks   H. Ghamari, Ph.D.*   Scientific validity or correctness is of paramount importance when it comes to the contents of textbooks used in elementary schools, as the very foundations of learners’ knowledge is constructed therein. Hence, an analysis of these contents from this perspective is necessary in order to guide...