Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016 National Implementation Framework

Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016 National Implementation Framework The Government's National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability was published in October 2011 by the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government and the Department of Health. The strategy covers the period to 2016 and outlines the broad proposals and strategic objectives involved in effectively addressing the housing and related support needs of people with disabilities. The Implementation Framework develops the key actions from the Strategy and assigns responsibilities to stakeholders, within relevant timelines, and provides key performance indicators, as appropriate.   Click here to download PDF 3.8mb

Value for Money and Policy Review of Disability Services in Ireland - National Implementation Framework

The National Implementation Framework describes how the recommendations from the Value for Money (VFM) and Policy Review of the Disability Services Programme will be translated into concrete actions. It assigns responsibilities for those actions, and specifies timelines for their completion. It also identifies priorities and key performance indicators. The Framework describes how these reforms can be achieved in a planned, timely and cost effective manner. Click here to download (PDF 876KB)

The Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework: Building on excellence,maintaining progress - Progress report for 2008

This report details the progress which has been made in implementing the Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework in the eight years since its publication.

Focus on the future : small business in the 1990s : the 10th National Legislative Conference on Small Business Issues, December 11-13, 1989, San Francisco, California.

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A model to assess the cost effectiveness of statins in achieving the UK National Service Framework target cholesterol levels

Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a public health priority in the UK. The National Service Framework (NSF) has set standards for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of CHD, which include the use of cholesterol-lowering agents aimed at achieving targets of blood total cholesterol (TC) < 5.0 mmol/L and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) < 3.0 mmol/L. In order to achieve these targets cost effectively, prescribers need to make an informed choice from the range of statins available. Aim: To estimate the average and relative cost effectiveness of atorvastatin, fluvastatin, pravastatin and simvastatin in achieving the NSF LDL-C and TC targets. Design: Model-based economic evaluation. Methods: An economic model was constructed to estimate the number of patients achieving the NSF targets for LDL-C and TC at each dose of statin, and to calculate the average drug cost and incremental drug cost per patient achieving the target levels. The population baseline LDL-C and TC, and drug efficacy and drug costs were taken from previously published data. Estimates of the distribution of patients receiving each dose of statin were derived from the UK national DIN-LINK database. Results: The estimated annual drug cost per 1000 patients treated with atorvastatin was £289 000, with simvastatin £315 000, with pravastatin £333 000 and with fluvastatin £167 000. The percentages of patients achieving target are 74.4%, 46.4%, 28.4% and 13.2% for atorvastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin and fluvastatin, respectively. Incremental drug cost per extra patient treated to LDL-C and TC targets compared with fluvastafin were £198 and £226 for atorvastatin, £443 and £567 for simvastatin and £1089 and £2298 for pravastatin, using 2002 drug costs. Conclusions: As a result of its superior efficacy, atorvastatin generates a favourable cost-effectiveness profile as measured by drug cost per patient treated to LDL-C and TC targets. For a given drug budget, more patients would achieve NSF LDL-C and TC targets with atorvastatin than with any of the other statins examined.

Teoria e pratica dell'architettura solare - Morfologia, rendimento, strategia progettuale

La recente Direttiva 31/2010 dell’Unione Europea impone agli stati membri di riorganizzare il quadro legislativo nazionale in materia di prestazione energetica degli edifici, affinchè tutte le nuove costruzioni presentino dal 1° gennaio 2021 un bilancio energetico tendente allo zero; termine peraltro anticipato al 1° gennaio 2019 per gli edifici pubblici. La concezione di edifici a energia “quasi” zero (nZEB) parte dal presupposto di un involucro energeticamente di standard passivo per arrivare a compensare, attraverso la produzione preferibilmente in sito di energia da fonti rinnovabili, gli esigui consumi richiesti su base annuale. In quest’ottica la riconsiderazione delle potenzialità dell’architettura solare individua degli strumenti concreti e delle valide metodologie per supportare la progettazione di involucri sempre più performanti che sfruttino pienamente una risorsa inesauribile, diffusa e alla portata di tutti come quella solare. Tutto ciò in considerazione anche della non più procrastinabile necessità di ridurre il carico energetico imputabile agli edifici, responsabili come noto di oltre il 40% dei consumi mondiali e del 24% delle emissioni di gas climalteranti. Secondo queste premesse la ricerca pone come centrale il tema dell’integrazione dei sistemi di guadagno termico, cosiddetti passivi, e di produzione energetica, cosiddetti attivi, da fonte solare nell’involucro architettonico. Il percorso sia analitico che operativo effettuato si è posto la finalità di fornire degli strumenti metodologici e pratici al progetto dell’architettura, bisognoso di un nuovo approccio integrato mirato al raggiungimento degli obiettivi di risparmio energetico. Attraverso una ricognizione generale del concetto di architettura solare e dei presupposti teorici e terminologici che stanno alla base della stessa, la ricerca ha prefigurato tre tipologie di esito finale: una codificazione delle morfologie ricorrenti nelle realizzazioni solari, un’analisi comparata del rendimento solare nelle principali aggregazioni tipologiche edilizie e una parte importante di verifica progettuale dove sono stati applicati gli assunti delle categorie precedenti

What Does the Lisbon Treaty Change Regarding Subsidiarity within the EU Institutional Framework?

he principle of subsidiarity refers in general to the choice of the most suitable and efficient level for taking policy action. The European Union associates subsidiarity with the way of taking decisions ‘as closely as possible to the citizen’, as it is referred to in the EU treaties. Thus, ensuring the respect of subsidiarity within the EU legislative framework ensures that any EU action is justified when proposing draft legislative acts. The Lisbon Treaty establishes new mechanisms reinforcing subsidiarity control, both ex ante and ex post the EU legislative process, and by doing so, enhances mainly the role of the national parliaments (and to a lesser extent the regional parliaments) and the Committee of the Regions. But in the end, this is a way of ensuring legitimacy of the EU action as it is quite often questioned, especially in times of crisis. Years of practice will tell whether the words will join reality.

National Audit of the Organisation of Services for Falls and Bone Health of Older People

This report presents the results of the second national audit which examines the organisation of services provided to older people for falls prevention and bone health. Falls and fractures are a common and serious problem affecting older people, with high levels of personal and financial cost. National guidelines, supported by the research evidence, require the provision of integrated services for falls and fracture prevention and treatment. Effective commissioning is needed to produce such high quality services.��This audit was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the second cycle of audits on services for the prevention of falls and fractures in older people. It follows the first organisational audit, performed in 2005, and the clinical audit of 2007. All were audited against specific standards from the National Service Framework for Older People (NSF) and guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Since the first audit, indicators have been added or updated in line with new guidance including that on falls prevention of inpatients following the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) report on slips, trips and falls in hospital (2007). For the first time, the audit also looks specifically at falls and fracture prevention in mental healthcare and a sample of care homes.

Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP)

The Myocardial Infarction Audit Project (MINAP) began in late 1998 when a broadly based steering group developed a dataset for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). This allowed clinicians to examine the management of myocardial infarction within their hospitals against targets specified by the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease (NSF). The audit project produces annual reports "How the NHS manages heart attacks" to show the performance of hospitals, ambulance services and cardiac networks in England and Wales against national standards and targets for the care of heart attack patients. MINAP has recently changed its name from the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project to the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project to reflect the importance of all acute coronary syndromes.

La protection des données personnelles en France

La notion de vie privée, et plus précisément le droit à la protection des renseignements personnels, est reconnue aussi bien dans les textes provinciaux, régionaux, nationaux et internationaux, que dans les politiques mises en place par les sites Web. Il est admis que toutes informations identifiant ou permettant d’identifier une personne peut porter atteinte à sa vie privée, à savoir son nom, prénom, numéro de téléphone, de carte bancaire, de sécurité sociale, ou encore ses adresses électronique et Internet. Cette protection, admise dans le monde réel, doit aussi exister sur les inforoutes, étant entendu que « l ’informatique (…) ne doit porter atteinte ni à l ’identité humaine, ni aux droits de l ’homme, ni à la vie privée, ni aux libertés individuelles ou publiques » (art. 1er de la Loi française dite « Informatique et Libertés » du 6 janvier 1978). Ce principe étant admis, il est pertinent de s’interroger sur les moyens envisagés pour parvenir à le réaliser. Faut-il avoir recours à la réglementation étatique, à l’autoréglementation ou à la corégulation ? Cette dernière notion « n’est pas à proprement parler une nouvelle forme de régulation », mais elle préconise une collaboration entre les acteurs du secteur public et privé. L’idée de partenariat semble retenir l’attention du gouvernement français dans sa mission d’adaptation du cadre législatif à la société de l’information, comme nous le montre le rapport Du droit et des libertés sur l’Internet remis dernièrement au Premier ministre. Par conséquent, cet article a pour objectif de dresser un tableau de la législation française, et de ses multiples rapports, applicables à la protection de la vie privée et, plus particulièrement, aux données personnelles sur le réseau des réseaux. En prenant en considération les solutions étatiques et non étatiques retenues depuis ces deux dernières décennies, nous envisagerons une étude de l’avant-projet de loi du Gouvernement visant à transposer en droit interne la Directive européenne du 24 octobre 1995 relative à la protection des données personnelles.

La supervisión de los contratos estatales en las entidades autónomas del nivel nacional de la administración pública

El documento expone el análisis de la supervisión de los contratos estatales celebrados por las entidades autónomas del orden nacional a partir del marco legislativo vigente.

Organic food market in the United States: Market access opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean producers

Includes bibliography

União Européia: a luta pelo reconhecimento identitário e a questão da cidadania supranacional

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC