Regionalization of Medical Services in New England

The Regionalization of Emergency Medical Services: a Strategy for Planning

The Regionalization of Emergency Medical Services: A Strategy for Planning and Intervention Shelley F. Bernstein E. Michael Paul Thomas Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on May 23, 1975, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degreesof Bachelor of Science in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Master of City Planning. In response to increasing in...

Postgraduate Medical Education in New England.

A REVIEW of postgraduate or continuing education of physicians in the New England area of the United States requires at the outset clear definition of the ground to be covered in this presentation. It is apparent that the term 'postgraduate' does not have precisely the same meaning for members of the British and the American medical professions. On inquiry it has been learned that in the United...

Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...

The Regionalization of Personal Health Services

While politicians have known for years that the essence ofleadership is embodied in a keen awareness of what the followers want, that news hasn't yet percolated sufficiently deeply into the medical care field. This is an excellent book-a model of thoughtful, academic analysis and insights, with a dash of historical relevance to give it the appearance of utility. Regionali7ation is good, necessa...

The new General Medical Services (GMS) contract and the National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV in England.