Independent Review of Health and Social Services Care in Northern Ireland

Appleby Report - August 2005

The Report of an Independent Review of Endoscope Contamination in Northern Ireland

The Report of an Independent Review of Endoscope Contamination in Northern Ireland

Extending Independent Nurse Prescribing (PDF 306 KB)

Extending Independent Nurse Prescribing Within the HPSS in N.I.

Report to the Minister for Health and Children: Independent Examination related to the Medical Council and South-Eastern Health Board (Dr John Harding Price)

The Minister for Health and Children has requested that an independent review be carried out of the circumstances surrounding the employment of a UK based Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr John Harding-Price, to a locum psychiatrist position with the South Eastern Health Board (SEHB) while he was suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC) in the United Kingdom and consequently the subject of legal proceedings by the Medical Council in Ireland. The Consultant was continuously registered with the Medical Council since 1968. Download the document here

Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too: Can Regulatory Agencies Be Both Independent and Accountable?

Independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) were created in various sectors and on different governmental levels to implement liberalization policies. This paper investigates the link between IRAs' independence, which is said to promote regulatory credibility and the use of technical expertise, and their accountability, which is related to the need for controlling and legitimizing independent regulators. The literature on the regulatory state anticipates a positive relation between the independence and accountability of IRAs, but systematic empirical evidence is still lacking. To tackle this question, this paper measures and compares the independence and the accountability of IRAs in three differentially liberalized sectors in Switzerland (telecommunications, electricity and railways). With the application of Social Network Analysis, this piece of research shows that IRAs can be de facto independent and accountable at the same time, but the two features do not necessarily co-evolve in the same direction.

Eye colour as a genetic marker for fertility and fecundity of Triatoma infestans (Klug, 1834) Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae

Eye colour of Triatoma infestans is controlled at a single autosomal locus, with black-eye as the dominant gene and red-eye as the recessive. Inheritance of these characters follows a classical Mendelian system, enabling eye colour to be used as a marker for studies of mating frequency. We found no significant differences in oviposition rates and egg hatching rates irrespective of parental phenotypes. Different mating schedules between red-eye and black-eye parents showed that eye colour did not affect mating competence. Females mated with a single male or with different males together or in succession produced similar numbers of fertile eggs, with the eye colour of the offspring reflecting exposure to the different males. We conclude that although a single mating can provide sufficient sperm for the whole reproductive life of the female, multiple matings can result in balanced assortative sperm usage from the spermatheca.

Expressió de VEGF com a factor pronòstic independent de recaiguda a la malaltia de Hodgkin.

El paper del fenomen angiogènic en els diferents tumors sòlids ha estat l’objectiu de nombrosos estudis en els darrers anys. La importància d’aquest procés en les neoplàsies d’origen hematològic encara és bastant desconeguda. En aquest treball hem estudiat l’expressió immunohistoquímica del factor de creixement de l’endoteli vascular (VEGF) en els “tissue microarrays” (TMA) de 252 pacients diagnosticats de limfoma de Hodgkin tractats de forma homogènia (poliquimioteràpia esquema ADVD amb o sense radioteràpia) entre els anys 1978 i 2003. Els resultats s’han correlacionat amb l’evolució dels pacients i s’ha avaluat la seva importància en la supervivència lliure de malaltia i supervivencia global de la sèrie.

Problemàtiques en l'estudi i investigació del "Dot Painting o Dot Art Movement" Aborigen austràlià

L'objecte d'estudi de la següent memòria són les obres de l'anomenat, en la literatura anglosaxona, "Dot Art Movement o Dot Painting"; un moviment artístic índigena contemporani engendrat entre la dècada dels 70 i els 80 del segle passat a les comunitats de Papunya i Yuendumu en el cor del Desert Australià. La memòria s'articula entorn les principals problemàtiques a les que s'enfronta la definició i descripció de l'anomenat "Dot Art Movement o Dot Painting" dins el context de consum i recepció de les obres a Europa. Aquestes problemàtiques, sobretot conceptuals però també metodològiques, són descrites entorn tres grans apartats: el fet "primitiu", el fet "aborigen" i el fet del "Dot Art Movement o Dot painting". A través d'aquests tres àmbits la memòria presenta diverses herències històriques de caràcter eurocèntric, amb base al període colonial, que dificulten la proliferació d'interpretacions i noves aproximacions vers la recepció europea de les obres d'aquest moviment artístic.

Report of the Panel established to conduct an independent review of the events surrounding the death of Roisin Ruddle - February 2005

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Eye tracking for on-screen reading

A medida que avanza la tecnolog a, cada vez son m as comunes los libros digitales. Por eso, existen varias formas de mejorar la experiencia de lectura del usuario, como mostrar la de nici on de una palabra que resulte dif cil, o resaltar lo importante del texto cuando se pasa la vista por encima. En este proyecto, se ha investigado la base de esto con la ayuda de un Eye Tracker. Se ha implementado una clasi caci on en palabras f aciles y dif ciles dependiendo de c omo una persona lee, y una forma de saber si se est a leyendo el texto o pasando la vista por encima.

First Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Group on "A Vision for Change"

First Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Group on “A Vision for Change” In January 2006, the Government adopted the Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy "A Vision for Change"Âù as the basis for the future development of mental health services. In March 2006, the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Mr Tim Oâ?TMalley, T.D., with special responsibility for mental health services, established the independent Monitoring Group to monitor progress on the implementation of the report recommendations. Click here to download PDF 255kb

Report of the Independent Body on Pharmacy Contract Pricing

Report of the Independent Body on Pharmacy Contract Pricing On 18 February 2008 the Minister for Health and Children announced the appointment of an Independent Body to recommend a new, interim community pharmacy dispensing fee for the General Medical Service (GMS), Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) and other community drug schemes.The Terms of Reference for the Independent Body on Pharmacy Contract Pricing are as follows: â?oTo advise the Minister for Health and Children on the appropriate level of dispensing fee to be paid to community pharmacists for existing services provided under the GMS and community drug schemes having regard to: Click here to download PDF: 110kb

Report on the Independent Review of Symptomatic Breast Care Services at Barringtons Hospital, Limerick

Report on the Independent Review of Symptomatic Breast Care Services at Barringtons Hospital, Limerick This independent review was established by Barringtons Hospital and the Department of Health and Children following concerns which had been raised about the standard of symptomatic breast care including cancer services at the Hospital. The terms of reference for the review are included at Appendix 1. An independent review team was established under the chairmanship of Dr Henrietta Campbell. The membership is listed at Appendix 2. Click here to download PDF 152kb