ACHIEVING AN ETHICAL HEALTH-SERVICE - THE NEED FOR INFORMATION - HM QUEEN-ELIZABETH-THE-QUEEN-MOTHER-LECTURE

Authors
HOLLAND W
Citation
W. Holland, ACHIEVING AN ETHICAL HEALTH-SERVICE - THE NEED FOR INFORMATION - HM QUEEN-ELIZABETH-THE-QUEEN-MOTHER-LECTURE, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 29(4), 1995, pp. 325-334
Citations number
51
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London → ACNP
ISSN journal
00358819
Volume
29
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
325 - 334
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8819(1995)29:4<325:AAEH-T>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The National Health Service (NHS) has a series of objectives. To deter mine whether these objectives are being achieved, data need to be coll ected from which the necessary information can be derived. It is there fore important to define the accepted ethical principles and objective s of the NHS and assess whether the data and information we collect he lp us to judge the performance of the NHS.