Purchasing for quality: the providers' view. Introduction.

Purchasing for quality: the providers' view. Introduction.

outcomes. The Health of the Nation4 was published in June 1991, and the results of consultation will be drawn together with a view to publishing a white paper this spring. This is likely to highlight the importance of multisectoral action to promote health nationally and locally but will also require a more critical appraisal of the role of the NHS itself and the responsibilities of health prof...

Purchasing for quality: the providers' view. Purchasing care for patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Patients with suspected myocardial infarction (MI) now account for a considerable proportion of acute medical admissions, whose number seems to be rising inexorably. Figure 1 shows the rise in such admissions to the Nottingham hospitals since 1982.1 No sensible provider is going to agree anything with a purchaser, based on the previous year's figures, even though we might have hoped that the nu...

Purchasing good quality eye care: the provider's view.

Vision is arguably our most important sense. Loss of vision can isolate a person and fear of blindness is common in people presenting to ophthalmic casualty departments, no matter how trivial their complaint. In 1994 there were 181 958 registered blind, and 133 823 registered partially sighted in the United Kingdom. The Royal National Institute for the Blind estimates that underregistration aff...

Purchasing for quality of care

Quality Management in Purchasing

Olga Anisimova Quality Management in Purchasing, 52 pages, 1 appendix Saimaa University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Business Administration, Lappeenranta Degree Programme in International Business Thesis 2014 Instructor: Senior Lecturer, Leena Laari-Muinonen, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences The implementation of quality management by the companies is one of the last tendencies towards ...