International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance: Volume 20 Issue 5

Quality award dimensions: a strategic instrument for measuring health service quality

The purpose of this paper is to describe research which compared quality awards and the selection of criteria for assessing health care processes quality status, in private sector…

The role of insurance in health care management in India

Health insurance in India has shown little development. It has not been able to evoke enthusiasm among Indian insurers. Consequently, several reports on Indian health care…

Is the Swedish welfare state in retreat? Current trends in Swedish health care

The purpose of this paper is to explore, 14 years since the introduction of market reforms, the extent to which changes have altered the nature of Sweden's health care financing…

Quality improvement and paramedic care: What does the literature reveal for pre‐hospital emergency care in Australia?

The purpose of this article to review the literature relating to improving paramedic care in an Australian context.

The quest to improve Chinese healthcare: some fundamental issues

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the problems associated with unsatisfactory delivery of services in the current healthcare system of China as experienced by patients of…

Relating nursing workload to quality of care in child and adolescent mental health inpatient services

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a simple tool that enables inpatient psychiatric adolescent units to relate patient dependency to the number of nursing…

Migrating registered nurses in the UK: Black and minority ethnic overseas nurses' perspectives

The purpose of the study is to explore, describe and develop a greater understanding of overseas Black and minority ethnic nurses' experiences of, as well as the impact of, their…

International Council of Nurses: Nursing Leadership

UK - New wave of community hospitals and services - old community hospitals get twenty-first century face-lift along with multi-million pound investment in new health centers

UK - Patient safety goes international - Don Berwick said the UK had hit milestones in improving healthcare

Africa - Economic Partnership Agreement</b>

USA - AHRQ and Ad Council encourage patients to ask questions and get more involved with their health care</b>

Australia - Start of cervical cancer vaccinations

Peru - Peru's undernourishment level is one of the highest in America

Bringing User Experience to Healthcare Improvement: the Concepts, Methods and Practices of Experience-based Design

A Caring Society?: Care and the Dilemmas of Human Services in the 21st Century

World Health Organization Tuberculosis: infection and transmission

UK - NHS improving on stress and safety finds healthcare watchdog in annual NHS staff survey but results highlight levels of violence and abuse

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Egypt - Scottish university deal heralds new era of nursing and health care in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East

Australia - Australians smoking less but still drinking

Canada - Improving Inuit health

New Zealand - Increase in services for forensic mental health patients