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West Midlands Health Informatics Network: A Perspective on Education and Training Needs

The growth of health informatics as a discipline has led to an increase in networks of people with similar interests for discussion, learning and sharing. Alongside these community networks, education and training are gaining interest, with more career opportunities and general public seeking information. This paper highlights the experience of the West Midlands Health Informatics Network and e...

A Competence-Based Collaborative Network: The West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace

We present a competence-based collaborative network, the West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace (WMCCM) that was successfully employed to gain new business opportunities for SMEs in the West Midlands region of the UK. The competence profiling methodology employed places an emphasis on what SMEs are capable of doing rather than what products they make. This generates an increased numbe...

Tuberculosis in National Health Service hospital staff in the west Midlands region of England, 1992-5.

BACKGROUND This study was designed to assess the current incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in National Health Service hospital staff in the West Midlands region of England and to evaluate the effectiveness of occupational health screening and surveillance procedures. METHODS A four year prospective study (1992-5) was carried out with case ascertainment through occupational health departments and...

An evaluation of clinical governance in the public health departments of the West Midlands Region.

STUDY OBJECTIVES (1) To evaluate the development of clinical governance within public health departments. (2) To assess two models for examining clinical governance in public health departments. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews carried out during the annual visits of the regional director of public health to the health authority public health departments. SETTING West Midland Region, Engla...

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPECIFIC EPILEPSY SERVICES A West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Group Report