PFI: perfidious financial idiocy

Borrowing to save: can NHS bodies ease financial pressures by terminating PFI contracts?

Observations on Pfi Evaluation Criteria

In light of the NSF’s commitment to measuring performance and results, there was strong support for undertaking a proper evaluation of the PFI program. The preceding chapters reported on a number of specific outcome measures and process measures (signposts) that were suggested to assess program performance; we now turn to some of the broader principles that were articulated (or could be inferre...

A Congenital Form of Amaurotic Family Idiocy.

SINCE the original description of Tay-Sach's disease in the eighties of the last century a group of allied nervous disorders has become recognized, the common pathological feature of which is a ubiquitous distention of the nerve cells with granules of a lipoid nature. Apart from a few anomalous forms it is customary to classify these amaurotic family idiocies according to the time of onset of t...

The Thalamic Pathology of Amaurotic Famiijy Idiocy

Most of our knowledge of the human thalamus has evolved from experimental work on animals and from the study of focal lesions in the human brain. Strangely enough, not much progress has been made in the investigation of the pathology of the thalamus. While the anatomist and the physiologist, in studying the thalamus, are aware of the fact that they are dealing with a combination of different nu...

Retinal Neuropathology of Late Infantile Amaurotic Idiocy.

THE retinal histopathology of amaurotic idiocies, as seen in sections stained with routine technique, as well as some of the histochemical changes are relatively well known (Holmes and Paton, 1925; Givner and Roisin, 1944; MacMillan, 1948). Good knowledge of the neuropathology, however, in this group of diseases is largely limited to the brain (Spielmeyer, 1906). To demonstrate the changes of t...