Report on the Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium, published by the Nuffield Trust, to encourage an open exchange between U.S and U.K participants and to foster collaborative analysis to help improve quality of care in both countries. Sir Liam's paper Quality in Health Care: The UK Policy Perspective traces the development of the British National Health Service (NHS) and sets out the main issues in health care quality.

Paper featured on pages 11 to 19.

Annual Report by Sir Liam for the Northern Regional Health Authority.

Health issues covered in this report significant to the Northern Region include;

The importance of healthy living in childhood, including eating for a healthy heart, health risk-taking in adolescence, and making health fun;

Maintaining healthy lifestyles in adulthood, including supervising family's health, preventing cancers in women, and communities with major health disadvantages;

And health issues for the elderly, including rapid responses to preventable problems in old age, and supporting the elderly whose independence is threatened by dementia.

Annual Report by Sir Liam for the Northern Regional Health Authority.

Health issues covered in this report significant to the Northern Region include;

Progress on the previous years' recommendations and major achievements in the region;

Preventing childhood accidents;

Decreasing risk factors associated with strokes and providing support to sufferers;

Reducing perinatal and maternal mortality;

The importance of regular, vigorous exercise;

Surveillance, prevention and investigation regarding communicable disease outbreaks;

And cleaner, safer regional and local environments.

Annual Report by Sir Liam for the Northern Regional Health Authority.

Health issues covered in this report significant to the Northern Region include;

Progress on the previous years' recommendations and major achievements in the region;

Adequately diagnosing and treating high blood pressure;

Prescribing cheaper but equally effective medicines to save money and treat more patients;

Greater use of day case surgerys in hospitals;

Reducing the risk of death through meningitis by administering penicillin injections before transferring sufferers to hospital;

Administering steroids to mothers in premature labour to reduce incidences of respiratory distress syndrome;

And the development and use of agreed clinical guidlines to standardise the treatment of patients.

Final report of the Retained Organs Commission, providing an account of how it conducted its business, its conclusions and recommendations. Includes the Commission's formal report to the Secretary of State for Health for 2003/2004.

Produced on the basis of the Inquiry report commisioned by NHS Chief Executive Alan Langlands in August 1995, into failures regarding corporate governance, financial losses and misconduct by officers in the former Yorkshire Regional Health Authority.

Report with multiple authors, including Sir Liam, arising from a Provider Conference for the Northern Regional Health Authority. Sir Liam's section is entitled Strategy for Health and Health Care in the Northern Region: Vision and Values .

This report, in response to public criticism at the unauthorised retention of children's tissue and organs at certain hospitals, consisted of a census of organs, body parts and tissues held by all NHS pathology services reflecting the position at the end of 1999. Sir Liam wrote to the Chief Executives of all NHS hospitals asking questions regarding the number of organs, body parts, still-births or foetuses being held; where the retention took place; the policies and procedures that exist on family consent; and the policies and protocols for their disposal after post-mortem.

Report by an independent panel established by Sir Liam to investigate health service handling of the Karl McGoldrick case, who died as a result of child abuse, and to draw conclusions and recommendations.

Report by investigating officer Colin Reeves, NHS Director of Finance, in response to the report of the District Auditor received by the Secretary of State for Health in April 1995, into failures regarding corporate governance, financial losses and misconduct by officers in the former Yorkshire Regional Health Authority.