Trusts need local negotiating committees

Local Committees

An interesting conference of representatives of the voluntary hospitals in the West Biding, excluding Bradford, Leeds, and Sheffield, has been held at the Clayton Hospital, Wakefield, with reference to the appointment of two representatives upon the Local Hospital .Committee for the West Eiding in connection with the Voluntary Hospitals Commission. As the result of much criticism of the propose...

Do we need research ethics committees?

This issue of the journal sees a number of exchanges on significant ethical problems. ‘Nudges’ have attracted a good deal of attention recently in the context of the ethics of public health interventions. Martin Wilkinson (see page 486) writes a guest editorial introducing important debate on Yashar Saghai’s featured article, Salvaging the concept of nudge (see page 487, Editor’s choice). Also,...

Trusts in trouble need supportive help, not excessive intervention.

The role of local research ethics committees.

audit works we might expect an improvement when comparing 1990 with the 1987 report. Direct comparison is often difficult and infrequently made by the authors. Necropsy rates have risen from 35% to 47%, although necropsy reports were considered to be poor in 25% of cases and reached the right doctors in only 75%. The proportion of patients examined by a consultant surgeon before operation did n...

The need for tuberculosis committees in county medical societies.

I have been requested to present some of the arguments for the appointment of a Tuberculosis Committee In each County Medical Society. In a general sense I cannot think of any disadvantages of a committee of this type unless It be that In certain counties, particularly some of those in the Texas Panhandle that the tuberculosis problem be so small as to provide no functions for the committee. Th...