Tom Hain
Biographic Data
| ID | 8980813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Hain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Hain |
| SIGNATURE | HAIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Multichannel communication
People respond to different kinds of support... the touch from someone who cares; the conversation with a friend, and the programme on TV. Support can also be from an article in a newspaper, a telephone call to a support group or in a discussion thread from an e-community. Support is provided through communication. People communicate to tell each other of concerns or to share ideas, contribute solutions. Communication is also the means to make ot…
Identifying information for child and maternity health
Manager of the Centre for Health Information Quality, The Help for Health Trust, Highcroft, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 5DH, UK. E-mail: [email protected] ‘Information is absolutely fundamental to choice... Information is the key to building trusting relationships and is essential to enable individuals to stay healthy’.1 If it is the case that information is fundamental to choice, then it is essential that users of children's and mate…
Health information appraised for quality
This article examines key issues around the quality and availability of health information, and introduces a range of initiatives in the UK which support the quality agenda. These initiatives share aims both to assure the quality of heath information and to make this information available to the public. A long-running and wide-ranging investigation into medical standards in the UK culminated in the publication of the Bristol Inquiry report.1 Clos…
Improving patient–provider communications
Facilitating dialogue between service users, policy leads and health professionals is essential in any modern health-care system. In Germany, there has been little tradition in citizen involvement for health-care policy making and priority-setting and data on the general publics’ view on the health-care system are still very limited. Until recently, such data are mostly available through traditional public-opinion polling and often lack depth, me…
Digital TV – a resource for health service delivery
Nick Williams MA (Management) PGDip PGCert Final year mature student, Bristol Business School (UWE), UK. Pear Tree Cottage, Theale, Wedmore, Somerset, BS28 4SR, UK. E-mail: [email protected] The clearest illustration of our new communication behaviour is the Internet. None of us is able to survey its full extent, none of us knows all the information it contains, and none of us can fully explain it. But many find it great. Why? Because ever…
Improving the quality of health information
The quality of information should be the key driver in communicating health messages to the public. Staff at The Centre for Health Information Quality (C‐H‐i‐Q) have worked with an extensive list of partner organizations from a range of disciplines. These stakeholders express a desire to see improvement in the standards of patient information, and display a willingness to embrace new approaches in order to achieve change. The result is an increas…
A quality assurance programme for NHS Digital TV services
The number of UK homes with access to digital TV is predicted to rise to 76% by the year 2008.1 The opportunity for utilising this medium to increase availability of NHS information is recognized in the NHS Plan,2 and the Department of Health plans a series of pilot services3 delivering health information to the public via the digital TV platform, with the first services due to be launched in the summer of 2001. A predominant feature of NHS Digit…
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A quality assurance programme for NHS Digital TV services
The number of UK homes with access to digital TV is predicted to rise to 76% by the year 2008.1 The opportunity for utilising this medium to increase availability of NHS information is recognized in the NHS Plan,2 and the Department of Health plans a series of pilot services3 delivering health information to the public via the digital TV platform, with the first services due to be launched in the summer of 2001. A predominant feature of NHS Digit…
Digital TV – a resource for health service delivery
Nick Williams MA (Management) PGDip PGCert Final year mature student, Bristol Business School (UWE), UK. Pear Tree Cottage, Theale, Wedmore, Somerset, BS28 4SR, UK. E-mail: [email protected] The clearest illustration of our new communication behaviour is the Internet. None of us is able to survey its full extent, none of us knows all the information it contains, and none of us can fully explain it. But many find it great. Why? Because ever…
Improving the quality of health information
The quality of information should be the key driver in communicating health messages to the public. Staff at The Centre for Health Information Quality (C‐H‐i‐Q) have worked with an extensive list of partner organizations from a range of disciplines. These stakeholders express a desire to see improvement in the standards of patient information, and display a willingness to embrace new approaches in order to achieve change. The result is an increas…
Improving patient–provider communications
Facilitating dialogue between service users, policy leads and health professionals is essential in any modern health-care system. In Germany, there has been little tradition in citizen involvement for health-care policy making and priority-setting and data on the general publics’ view on the health-care system are still very limited. Until recently, such data are mostly available through traditional public-opinion polling and often lack depth, me…
Identifying information for child and maternity health
Manager of the Centre for Health Information Quality, The Help for Health Trust, Highcroft, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 5DH, UK. E-mail: [email protected] ‘Information is absolutely fundamental to choice... Information is the key to building trusting relationships and is essential to enable individuals to stay healthy’.1 If it is the case that information is fundamental to choice, then it is essential that users of children's and mate…
Health information appraised for quality
This article examines key issues around the quality and availability of health information, and introduces a range of initiatives in the UK which support the quality agenda. These initiatives share aims both to assure the quality of heath information and to make this information available to the public. A long-running and wide-ranging investigation into medical standards in the UK culminated in the publication of the Bristol Inquiry report.1 Clos…
Multichannel communication
People respond to different kinds of support... the touch from someone who cares; the conversation with a friend, and the programme on TV. Support can also be from an article in a newspaper, a telephone call to a support group or in a discussion thread from an e-community. Support is provided through communication. People communicate to tell each other of concerns or to share ideas, contribute solutions. Communication is also the means to make ot…
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