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.

Consists of material relating to the Northern Regional Health Authority in England and Sir Liam's role in the Authority as Regional Medical Officer and Regional Director of Public Health (June 1986 - February 1992), and Regional General Manager and Director of Public Health (March 1992 - March 1994).

Consists of material relating to the Northern and Yorkshire Regional Health Authority in England and Sir Liam's role in the Authority as Regional General Manager and Regional Director of Public Health (April 1994 - Mar 1996), and later Regional Director and Regional Director of Public Health in the NHS Executive: Northern and Yorkshire (April 1996 - September 1998).

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.

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.

Includes publications by Sir Liam or which he has contributed to in a personal capacity.