Organisation of prison medical services.

Organisation of prison medical services.

Much of the discussion about prison health care in the past few years has focused on whether the prison medical service* should be incorporated into the National Health Service. Some critics have tended to see this as an answer to all the ills of the service, and the prison department has taken the threat seriously enough to devote most of the part of its 1981 annual report dealing with health ...

Organisation of laboratory services in Malaysia.

Financing and organisation of veterinary services.

This paper analyses the different ways of financing official Veterinary Services (VS) and the effects of these choices on the performance of such Services. The links between governance, organisational effectiveness and financing arrangements are seen as particularly important. The paper comments on some of the advantages and disadvantages of financing VS with service fees, as compared to budget...

Medical student experiences in prison health services and social cognitive career choice: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND One of the purposes of undergraduate medical education is to assist students to consider their future career paths in medicine, alongside the needs of the societies in which they will serve. Amongst the most medically underserved groups of society are people in prison and those with a history of incarceration. In this study we examined the experiences of medical students undertaking ...

Organisation of services for managing ADHD.

There is considerable variation in practice, both between and with different countries in the management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Whilst there is no one optimal model of service organisation there are general principles of care that can be introduced to reduce this variability. There are frequent debates and discussions about which professional group is best placed to...