existing in Burton-upon-Trent, no useful purpose would be served by the entry of the county borough into the scheme, and that the Town Clerk should so inform the Secretary of the Commission and the Clerk of the Staffordshire County Council. The face value of these decisions suggests a very regrettable state of affairs, which, however, one cannot but think may be amended by further consideration...

the Guild of Pharmacists on " The Future of the Voluntary and Municipal Hospitals." Considerations of space admit only of our giving such passages as bear immediately upon the important question of the relief of hospital pressure by utilising vacant beds in the Poor-Law Infirmaries. Mr. Morris began by pointing out that, although the Waiting List at the London now stands at 865, at the Whitecha...

M. BISCEGLIA, C. FISHER1, S. SUSTER2, D.V. KAZAKOV3, K. COOPER4, M. MICHAL3 Department of Pathology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy; 1 Department of Histopathology, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 2 Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus, OH, USA; 3 Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty Hospitals, Charles Univer...

The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher motivational practice might influence Iranian EFL Learners’ Request and Refusal Speech Acts Production. To this end, five instruments were used to provide appropriate responses to research questions: (a) Quick Placement Test (b) the Motivational Orientation of Language Teaching classroom observation scheme, (c) the Post-Lesson Teacher Evaluati...

accreditation, as an approach to quality assurance and improvement, has a hundred-year history in the united states. other countries have started to establish such systems in the past twenty years. recently, we have witnessed numerous discussions and some practical steps toward establishing accreditation systems in iran. a major practical challenge for such newer accreditation systems is that a...

BACKGROUND Previous research addressed the development of a classification scheme for quality improvement systems in European hospitals. In this study we explore associations between the 'maturity' of the hospitals' quality improvement system and clinical outcomes. METHODS The maturity classification scheme was developed based on survey results from 389 hospitals in eight European countries. ...

Maldistribution of health professionals between urban and rural areas has been a serious problem in China. Urban hospitals attract most of the health professionals with serious shortages in rural areas. To address this issue, a number of policies have been implemented by the government, such as free medical education in exchange for obligatory rural service.

The decrease of charitable contributions and the greatly increased cost of the whole conduct of hospitals has compelled managers to require payment, directly or indirectly, from the great majority of patients. It is to the credit of the working-man of today that he has that spirit of independence which makes him unwilling to receive this benefit as a charity. He resents the inquiries of the alm...

Few reports appear in the literature concerning tuberculosis case finding in “Old Folks” homes. Myers4 calls attention to the reservoir of contagious tuberculosis in the aged. Medlar23 reported an increasing incidence of tuberculosis in the “over 50 year” group that came to autopsy during 1940-1945 as compared to a similar group autopsied in 1916-1920 in New York City. In 1942, in 1945 and agai...

Beyond the limelight of teaching hospitals, the psychiatric profession is in a state of near-collapse. A lack of resources and man-power is resulting in an incomplete service which is unfair to patients and demoralising for doctors-the situation needs salvaging, and soon.