Volume 4 Number 1 
NICE Supplement

Editorial

Clinical Excellence 2001
M Rawlins and P Kumar

Main plenary sessions

National Institute for Clinical Excellence
A Dillon

Commission for Health Improvement
P Homa

The Modernisation Agency
D Fillingham

Royal College of Nursing
B Malone

Haruspex, hugs and rock 'n' roll
R Lilley

Plenary sessions: working together to understand the national picture

National planning: working together
L Appleby, A Aynsley-Green and D Colin-Thome

Performance and management
S Osborn, C Guelbert, R Field and P Homa

Parallel sessions: working together to understand the national picture

The National Service Framework for Mental Health: the national picture
A Higgitt

The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
J Meehan and J Shaw

Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths and Infancy (CESDI): the Diabetes Enquiry Programme
J Modder and S Lomax

Changing the way we operate
C Hargraves and R Hoile

The role of the National Health Service in health development
J French

The work of the National Clinical Assessment Authority
J Eaton

Health Technology Assessment in Scotland
K Facey

The National electronic Library for Health: a free resource for improving healthcare practice
P Bladen

Medicines regulation: a changing environment
I Hudson

Regulation medical devices
D Jefferys

Implementing clinical governance within primary care
G Sweeney, K Sweeney, M Greco and J Stead

An integrated approach to clinical governance within a primary healthcare team
I Inglis and S Fairlie

Delivery clinical governance through continuing professional development
J Nettleton

Bridging the gap between evidence-based medicine and clinical practice: interventions to improve the management of women suffering from menorrhagia in the Tynedale area
M Mansour, D Mansour and D Crowe

Delivering the research and clinical effectiveness agenda: what the allied health professions can offer
K Gadhok

Delivering the research agenda: will 2002 be a turning point for the allied health professions?
I Ilott and T Bury

The National Audit and Governance Group
C Swonnell

A strategy for supporting the implementation of evidence-based practice
B Atkins and P Ewings

Warwickshire Risk Management in Primary Care Project
M Boxall, L Wallace, E Affie, C Grainger, K Mills and M Russell

Plenary sessions: working together to delivery locally

Implementing national guidance
T Campbell Davis, J Williams, C Moore and J Kingsland

Multidisciplinary working and The NHS Plan: the pleasures and pitfalls

Parallel sessions: working together to delivery locally

Delivering clinical governance at a local level 
G de Lacey

A local initiative for the management of clinical governance in general practice
B Weatherill

PRODIGY in practice
C Dobbing

What makes a good Health Improvement Programme?
B Stapleton and P Plant

Being reviewed by CHI: a first-hand experience
J Coakley

Mental health services in primary care: delivery the agenda
D Nixon and T Saunders

Physiotherapy-led orthopaedic waiting list initiative: a Beacon service
A Allan, D Evans, M Beswick

Developing integrated clinical audit projects between primary, secondary and community care
J Stead

Introducing significant event analysis to independent contractors
L Hillier

Leeds Community Clinical Monitoring Service
M Bosomworth, E Moulton and F Dunn

Plenary sessions: working together to develop NICE guidance for the NHS

NICE, the process and the programmes 
A Dillon, D Barnett and M Eccles

Points for debate: a European perspective
JP Kampmann, G Ollenschlager and S Capri

Parallel sessions: working together to develop NICE guidance for the NHS

The National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care
E McInnes

The National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care
J Dutchak

The National Guidelines and Audit Patient Involvement Unit
M Kelson

The National Sentinel Caesarean Section Audit Results
J Thomas and S Paranjothy

The National Guideline Support and Research Unit: its role and aims
J Mason, D Wilson and D Nicolson

The patient perspective: is our voice being heard?
N Betteridge

Budget Impact Analysis for health technology appraisal: development and application within the NICE appraisal process
M Chambers, J Hutton and M Nuijten

Improving the efficiency and acceptability of decision-modelling for cost-effectiveness analysis of health technologies
J Hutton and M Chambers

Costing the impact of the cancer service guidance
A Brennan, S Ward and S Hummel

Reviewing, in the absence of evidence
J Wight

For debate

Clinical governance, the emperor's new clothes and the meaning of clinical audit
R Bullock

Coaching consultants: appraisal as preventive medicine
J Sanger

Evidence-based practice digests
Book Reviews