The appointment of student governors to the governing board is mandatory in further education (FE) colleges across UK. There is, however, confusion and lack clarity over role governor, little empirical research, especially involving direct observation, has been undertaken which sheds light on this. This paper examines how governor understood by boards it enacted practice. Over one calendar year...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread use of tumor boards, few data on their effects on cancer care exist. We assessed whether the presence of a tumor board, either general or cancer specific, was associated with recommended cancer care, outcomes, or use in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system. METHODS We surveyed 138 VA medical centers about the presence of tumor boards and linked cancer regi...

Multidisciplinary management tumor boards are now conducted worldwide for the management of patients with cancer. Studies evaluating their influence on decision making and patient outcome are limited; however, single-center studies have reported significant changes in diagnosis and treatment plans. A survey from Arabic countries showed widespread use and reliance on tumor boards for decision ma...

BACKGROUND This paper contributes to research in health systems literature by examining the role of health boards in hospital governance. Health care ranks among the largest public sectors in OECD countries. Efficient governance of hospitals requires the responsible and effective use of funds, professional management and competent governing structures. In this study hospital governance practice...

Nursing Leadership from Bedside to Boardroom: Opinion Leaders’ Perceptions Khoury, Blizzard, Moore, Hassmiller Quantitative/ Qualitative Journal of nursing administration The study found that people in general find nurses to be trustoworthy, especially when it comes to health care issues and also showed that people were aware of nurses' lack of presence on boards and decreased influence in exec...

This paper presents an overview on the advantages an integrated symbolic connectionist approach can ooer for robot programming and control. It describes the functional dependency of symbolic and con-nectionist modules being parts of an hierarchical robot control system as well as their descriptive and methodological integration. Moreover, it is shown how both symbolic and connectionist learning...

In this paper we develop and test the hypothesis that institutional funding arrangments affect the extent to which public agencies are influenced by special interests. We test this hypothesis using data on state medical boards. In 1989, medical boards in twenty-one states received budget appropriations from their legislatures. The remaining boards operated independent of legislative control, fi...

Corporate governance and the role of boards is a topic hotly debated in boardrooms, associations and media across the industrialized world. However intense, discussions are largely national phenomena due to the widespread belief that boards cannot be compared on an international plane. The authors argue the contrary: that there is a great deal to be learned from such comparisons because boards ...

The principal reform accomplished by Part XX.1 was the creation of a system of forensic Review Boards in each province. The Boards assumed the role previously played by provincial Cabinets in determining the custodial status of forensic patients. Part XX.1 established the Review Boards as quasi-judicial tribunals which would afford all parties, including the accused, a full panoply of procedura...