Showing papers on "White paper published in 1992"
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14 May 1992
TL;DR: Paradigm lost? media studies and research on information and communication technologies in the UK the language of advantage - satellite television in Western Europe the prognosis for satellite TV in UK white and green and not much re(a)d - the white paper on broadcasting policy broadband Black Death cuts queues - the information society and the UK wall to wall Dallas? the US-UK trade in television programmes broadcasting and national culture in Canada national culture - a contradiction in terms? walling Germany with brass - theoretical paradigms in British studies of television news seeing is believing - the ideology of
Abstract: Paradigm lost? media studies and research on information and communication technologies in the UK the language of advantage - satellite television in Western Europe the prognosis for satellite television in the UK white and green and not much re(a)d - the white paper on broadcasting policy broadband Black Death cuts queues - the information society and the UK wall to wall Dallas? the US-UK trade in television programmes broadcasting and national culture in Canada national culture - a contradiction in terms? walling Germany with brass - theoretical paradigms in British studies of television news seeing is believing - the ideology of naturalism.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how large firms may respond to the political, economic and industrial changes in Europe in the 1990s and treat the 1992 initiative as a specific example of that more general executive problem, how to manage processes of strategic change.
Abstract: The 1985 White Paper entitled, ‘Completing the Internal Market’, contains a plan to enact some 300 new rules aimed at dismantling all intra-European trade barriers by the end of 1992 Existing knowledge about the realities of the policy processes at national, never mind supra-national levels suggest there will be a gap between such strategic intentions and their operational implementation The focus of this chapter therefore is how large firms may respond to the political, economic and industrial changes in Europe in the 1990s The 1992 initiative is treated as a specific example of that more general executive problem, how to manage processes of strategic change
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01 Oct 1992
TL;DR: The 1989 White Paper "Working for Patients" as discussed by the authors was the watershed of the Conservative government's policymaking for the future of the British National Health Service (NHS) and its proposals and the reactions to which it gave rise.
Abstract: The 1989 White Paper "Working for Patients" was the watershed of the Conservative government's policymaking for the future of the British National Health Service. This text examines the political and historical background to the document, its proposals and the reactions to which it gave rise.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a robust analysis of contemporary NHS management as we move through the 1990s and assesses the likely implications of the changes arising from the NHS White Paper, Working for Patients, which were introduced in April 1991.
Abstract: It is our purpose in this penultimate chapter to bring together, with a view to explaining, the issues raised both by our own research findings (presented in Chapter 3) and those of other researchers (described in Chapter 4). In so doing, we hope to provide a robust analysis of contemporary NHS management as we move through the 1990s. Chapter 6 then looks to the future and assesses the likely implications of the changes arising from the NHS White Paper, Working for Patients, which were introduced in April 1991.
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TL;DR: The German dual system is now a source of pride at home and emulation abroad as mentioned in this paper, and it is therefore timely to examine the recent development of the Dual System. But despite its manifest success, it suffers from certain problems, and the aim of the present paper to analyse its strengths and weaknesses.
Abstract: The German Dual System is now a source of pride at home and emulation abroad. For example, the reforms which the British government proposed in 1991 to apply to post- compulsory education, as detailed in its White Paper Education and Training for the 21st Century (1991), would effectively set up in the United Kingdom structures similar to those which have already existed in Germany for decades. It is therefore timely to examine the recent development of the Dual System. In 1990 there were 1.8 million young persons (40% female, 60% male) in training under the Dual System-that is, 70% of the age cohort (BMBW, 1990, p. 1). The fact that in the early 1970s only 50% of the age cohort was involved gives an indication of the developmental impetus of this education/training process. Yet despite its manifest success it suffers from certain problems, and it is the aim of the present paper to analyse its strengths and weaknesses. The Dual System, like most important institutions in German public life, has a legal basis: the Vocational Education Law (Berufsbildungsgesetz (BBiG)). This was first passed in 1969 by the CDU/CSU/SPD Coalition, and revised in 1990 in preparation for impending German re-unification (cf. Jobst, 1990), the aim being to apply it as quickly as possible to
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TL;DR: In the case of Valencia, which could serve to typify the tourism issues of the European Mediterranean region, a new business culture has begun to emerge, with a tourism strategy which has been agreed upon in the White Paper on Valencian Tourism as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: The new reforms hope to enhance efficiency in the NHS by stimulating competition and further decentralizing the management of health care, however, it is not at all certain that in practice the reforms will have the desired effect.
Abstract: The British National Health Service (NHS) has, since its inception, aimed to make health care available to all regardless of income, and it has managed to achieve this goal while keeping costs lower as a proportion of the gross domestic product than many Western countries and at the same time assuring equitable distribution of resources regionally. Until the reforms introduced by the 1989 White Paper, the NHS was characterized by centralized financing and regulation; despite some problems in the delivery and management of care, the system was a popular one. The new reforms hope to enhance efficiency in the NHS by stimulating competition and further decentralizing the management of health care. However, it is not at all certain that in practice the reforms will have the desired effect. Initial costs will be high, people may not respond to incentives as predicted, and the quality of care and access to it could well deteriorate. Nations planning to use the U.K. system as a model are advised to use caution.
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TL;DR: The United Nations Environment and Development Agenda 21 has been adopted by consensus and the United Nations Environmental Action Programme for sustainable development for the next century has, by consensus, been adopted as discussed by the authors.
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01 Dec 1992
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Journal Article•
TL;DR: The health of the nation white paper sets targets in five key areas for reductions in both mortality and morbidity: coronary heart disease and stroke, cancers, mental illness, HIV/Aids and sexual health and accidents, and Dr Sara Levene considers accidents.
Abstract: The health of the nation white paper sets targets in five key areas for reductions in both mortality and morbidity: coronary heart disease and stroke, cancers, mental illness, HIV/Aids and sexual health and accidents. In a series of articles in Health visitor, experts will be considering the opportunities the white paper offers for community nurses in each of the key areas. Here Dr Sara Levene, medical consultant to the Child Accident Prevention Trust, considers accidents, a major problem which health visitors can do much to control. She reviews how accidents are presented in the white paper, what health visitors can do and what resources are available to help them. She offers particular advice on special accident prevention initiatives and discusses some of the opportunities created by the white paper. Language: en
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the lessons to be learnt from the Welsh strategy for the development of needs-led services as promulgated by the Community Care White Paper and draw from a case study of one area in Wales, an attempt is made to test the expectations for needsled services in terms of local planning and management requirements of the three models against the experiences of those charged with putting them into practice.
Abstract: Many of the principles of the Community Care White Paper (DoH, 1989) bear a striking resemblance to the Welsh mental handicap strategy launched six years earlier (Welsh Office, 1983). This paper considers the lessons to be learnt from the Welsh strategy for the development of needs-led services as promulgated by the White Paper. Similarities and differences between the two policy initiatives are first identified before considering the conceptual basis of needs-led services. Attention is drawn to two interdependent dimensions of needs-led services, user participation and management delegation, as a means of depicting three underlying models, each with different value stances. By drawing from a case study of one area in Wales, an attempt is made to test the expectations for needs-led services in terms of local planning and management requirements of the three models against the experiences of those charged with putting them into practice. Implications for the White Paper are explored in connection with user involvement strategies and assessment and care management processes.
TL;DR: The danger in writing on this issue currently is that one becomes trapped in the here and now, in particularities of the current debate in the context of the Higher Education: A New Framework as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The danger in writing on this issue currently is that one becomes trapped in the here and now, in the particularities of the current debate in the context of the White Paper, Higher Education: A New Framework. 1 I propose to begin with this but to move on to much broader and more fundamental issues.
TL;DR: The White Paper Higher Education: A New Framework, (May 1992), announced a set of new policies for British universities and polytechnics without offering either argument or evidence as mentioned in this paper, which included the end of the binary system, the creation of new higher education funding councils, and a strong emphasis on new mechanisms for quality assessment and control.
Abstract: The White Paper Higher Education: A New Framework, (May 1992), announced a set of new policies for British universities and polytechnics without offering either argument or evidence. The policies include the end of the binary system, the creation of new higher education funding councils, and a strong emphasis on new mechanisms for quality assessment and control. The White Paper projects rapid enrolment growth, but says nothing about the resources needed for the expansion or the significance for growth of Further Education or the European Community.
TL;DR: The wider implications of the White Paper on nurse education are explored, including the issues of student numbers; rationalisation of courses; the impact of contracts; quality control and clinical placements; and the issue of capital assets; educational premises; funding and income generation.
TL;DR: Higher Education: A New Framework is the new White Paper for Higher Education and was issued simultaneously with another White Paper, Education and Training for the 21st Century: The Challenge to Colleges as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Higher Education: A New Framework is the new White Paper for Higher Education and was issued simultaneously with another White Paper, Education and Training for the 21st Century: The Challenge to Colleges. Together, they represent the direction of future policy for post‐16 education and training. The White Paper is a White Paper in name only: it comes in the form of a lavish, multi‐coloured brochure and at £6#lb60 for 41 pages, it cannot be considered a snip. What it says about the future of higher education, however, is of great significance. This article has two major sections: a general summary of the chief provisions of HE, and a commentary on them.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look particularly at the latter, the differing approaches on each side of the binary line, the likely remit of the emerging audit unit, the difficulties of quality assessment in a single higher education system and the criteria for determining how far degree awarding powers should be bestowed on smaller institutions.
Abstract: Quality emerges as an important theme in the British Government White Paper,‘Higher Education: A New Framework’ published in May 1991. Quality in both research and teaching receive attention. This article looks particularly at the latter, the differing approaches on each side of the binary line, the likely remit of the emerging audit unit, the difficulties of quality assessment in a single higher education system and the criteria for determining how far degree awarding powers should be bestowed on smaller institutions.
TL;DR: In 1990, the Conservative Government published a White Paper on the environment, This Common Inheritance (HMSO, 1990) as discussed by the authors, which summarised the achievements of the past, and advanced the concept of integrated pollution control (IPC).
Abstract: In 1990, the Conservative Government published a White Paper on the environment, This Common Inheritance (HMSO, 1990). It summarised the achievements of the past, and advanced the concept of integrated pollution control (IPC). In place of the separate regulation of air, land and water pollution, the new approach would take account of the impact of emissions on all aspects of the environment. The inevitable trade-off required an integrated solution-termed the Best Practical Environmental Option (BPEO). The White Paper went further. It suggested how this integrated pollution control was to be applied. Regulators would calculate the Best Available calculation, set an authorisation or consent, a maximum level of emissions.
TL;DR: The reforms of the British National Health Service should be seen in an international context, as an attempt to bring private business methods into the running of the health services while still retaining the essential principles of medical services being largely free at the point of use.
Abstract: After a long period of growth and relative organizational stability, the last 10 years have been a period of reappraisal. One driving force has been the desire of governments simply to contain health care costs. Another has been the search to find ways of obtaining better value for money. Thus, the reforms of the British National Health Service should be seen in an international context. Britain is by no means alone in introducing changes which would have been thought inconceivable only 10 years ago. Sweden has, of course, also been introducing changes. And it may be that there will be more to follow.
The changes in Britain should be seen as a process, starting essentially from 1984. The Thatcher White Paper in 1989 was the culmination of it. Essentially the changes consist of an attempt to bring private business methods into the running of the health services while still retaining the essential principles of medical services being largely free at the point of use and intended to offer equal access to all citizens. It has been, in part, a change of control from bodies representing different interests to control by bodies established on similar lines to the Board of Directors of a public company and acting as such.
01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: This book discusses the evolving agenda management, political economy and health policy the central changes to the NHS - 1991 and after.
Abstract: Financing and providing healthcare perspectives on different systems - competition and planning the legacy - the NHS and its problems in perspective ideology, right wing ideas and Conservative reforms - the prime minister's review the White Paper - competition and planning in practice implementing the White Paper - the evolving agenda management, political economy and health policy the central changes to the NHS - 1991 and after.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The role of doctors in the pharmaceutical value chain accounting for patients and a case of smuggled innovation the future of health care delivery markets or hierarchies are discussed.
Abstract: Introduction - innovation and interest in the organization of health care delivery crisis and opportunity in health service management professionals as gatekeepers - the role of doctors in the pharmaceutical value chain accounting for patients? -information technology and the implementation of the NHS White Paper time and the consultant - issues of contract and control the future of primary care nurse practitioners and the changing face of general practice evolution in community care - the role of the community pharmacist the diffusion of innovation in clinical equipment modes of innovation in management information systems innovation and the politics of patient information systems hospitals in Britain - a history of design/innovation reconstructing the future - the politics of designing a new hospital central treatment - a case of smuggled innovation the future of health care delivery markets or hierarchies?.
TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of Hong Kong's environment in the fields of water, waste, air and noise has been assessed to highlight the pertinent maladies and shortcomings, and ameliorative measures, both present and projected, are evaluated for their effectiveness and prospects.
01 Oct 1992
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the issues of the contribution, efficiency and value for money of higher education in the face of its increasing demands on national resources, including the revision of the school curriculum and its impact on the nature of pre-1991 White Paper University education.
Abstract: Governments are now addressing the issues of the contribution, efficiency and value for money of higher education in the face of its increasing demands on national resources. The structures in which higher education has now to operate are subject to radical change and the financial pressures will continue to increase. The following factors pose increasingly insistent challenges for universities and other institutions of higher education: the conflicts arising from the revision of the school curriculum particularly in the United Kingdom and its impact on the nature of pre‐1991 White Paper University education, especially; the pressure to offer greater opportunities for access at different points in an individual's life; increases in sophistication and hence cost in the infrastructure needed for leading‐edge research leading to demands for greater selectivity and concentration of support for curiosity driven research and the simultaneous pressure for clearer directions for research in supporting increasingl...
Journal Article•
TL;DR: Sam Ramaiah and colleagues describe the experience in South Tees of working with GPs to fulfil the health and health care needs of their resident populations.
Abstract: Publication of the NHS White Paper Working for Patients and subsequent legislation has introduced the requirement for district health authorities to assess the health and health care needs of their resident populations. Sam Ramaiah and colleagues describe their experience in South Tees of working with GPs to fulfil this objective.
TL;DR: The advantages and disadvantages of the different models put forward currently for quality assurance in British higher education, and the different purposes inherent in these models have been discussed in this paper, where they have been proposed by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, the Standing Conference of the Arts and Social Sciences, the Labour Party Discussion Paper ‘Quality Assured’ and the Government White Paper of May 1991.
TL;DR: The British government's request for input into its promised White Paper on science has stimulated an unprecedented and often controversial stream of suggestions from the scientific community.
Abstract: The British government's request for input into its promised White Paper on science has stimulated an unprecedented and often controversial stream of suggestions from the scientific community