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;

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.

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.

Research study commissioned by Sir Liam and the Department of Health and prepared by Professor Judith Allsop, University of Lincoln, and Dr Kathryn Jones, De Montford University, to inform the Advisory Group into Medical Regulation. Consists of a review into quality assurance in medical regulation in seven countries and analysis of these findings.

Draft findings discussed at 6th Advisory Group Meeting held on 22 September 2005.

Consists of an application, prepared by Sir Liam, to the Health Authority Central Fund, proposing a Regional Quality of Care Commision within the Northern Region to address quality of care issues in an integrated manner.