In a recent article, Mannion and Davies argue that there are a multitude of ways in which organizations (such as the National Health Service [NHS]) can deal with wrongdoing or ethical problems, including the formation of policies that encourage and protect would-be whistleblowers. However, it is important to distinguish internal reporting about wrongdoing from whistleblowing proper, because the...

Correspondence: Dave Jeffery It has been identified that the occurrence of Workplace Violence (WPV) towards staff in UK mental health services is significant (National Audit Office, 2003). Moreover, findings from the NHS Security Management Service (NHS SMS) suggest that between 2008-9 54, 758 NHS staff were victims of reported physical assault, with 38,958 instances occurring in mental health ...

The Royal Commission on the National Health Service assumed that "the expansion of entry to United Kingdom Medical Schools will eventually result in a reduction of overseas doctors employed in the NHS."' This would happen, it thought, because of the formidable difficulties overseas doctors would have finding jobs, but it did not propose policies for controlling the immigration and training of o...

The implementation of the National Health Service's Care Record Service (NHS CRS) is the most ambitious information technology innovation ever undertaken in healthcare. This electronic health record system represents the key component of the National Programme for Information Technology. Its implementation is however proving extremely challenging. Building on a recent systematic review of the e...

Since 1948 the private sector has viewed itself as complementary to the NHS. Before the NHS was set up in 1948 health care was provided by charities and voluntary hospitals, private medical clubs, occupational medical services and works clubs, fee for service insurance, friendly societies, public medical services (which were funded by subscription), and medical fees paid on an ad hoc basis. The...

To cite: Scolding N, Barnes D, Cader S, et al. Pract Neurol 2015;15:273–279. INTRODUCTION In June 1999, the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) first published guidelines for the use of the licensed multiple sclerosis (MS) disease-modifying treatments (at that time β-interferon and glatiramer acetate). The guidelines were revised in 2001 and have been periodically updated since then. In 2...

The British National Electronic Library for Health aims to provide both healthcare professionals and the public with knowledge to support healthcare related decisions. This meta resource is essentially an electronic clearinghouse of various initiatives within the UK and the National Health Service (NHS). The main site is free to all users, but only registered NHS health providers can access som...

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey for the years 1996-2000 to investigate the relationship between saving and private medical insurance in the UK. Because the National Health Service (NHS) gives comprehensive health coverage and is generally free at source, one would not expect private medical insurance to crowd-out saving. However, the NHS being characterised by long waiting li...

Clinical governance provides a framework for accountability and quality improvement. While research is concerned with discovering the right thing to do, audit is concerned with ensuring that the right thing is done. A First class service 2 outlined structures within the National Health Service (NHS) for setting standards: the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Ser...

it is well-established that for a considerable period the united kingdom has spent proportionally less of its gross domestic product (gdp) on health-related services than almost any other comparable country. average european spending on health (as a % of gdp) in the period 1980 to 2013 has been 19% higher than the united kingdom, indicating that comparable countries give far greater fiscal prio...