{"title":"Loss of Crown Immunity in the NHS; the effect on hotel services.","authors":"B J Collins","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A less than \"holy\" combination of the Environmental Officers of Health (EHO) and the pest control industry had for some time been conducting a campaign for the removal of Crown Immunity from hospitals. They had not been so vociferous in their campaign to remove the same privilege from prisons and the armed services. I find it difficult to believe this was out of conviction that other institutions were trouble free. For in 1985 of the 191 Institutional outbreaks only 37 (19%) were in hospitals. The outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning at the Stanley Royd hospital provided enough public pressure to be generated for crown immunity to be removed from NHS premises. It remained in prisons and the armed services.</p>","PeriodicalId":80017,"journal":{"name":"Journal (Institute of Sterile Services Management)","volume":"1 1","pages":"11-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21162013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal obligations of NHS managers.","authors":"H J Jacks","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The loss of crown immunity resulting from section 2 of the National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 has understandably caused much concern relating to the application of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to hospitals. The NHS managers must remember that their legal obligations can be both civil and criminal.</p>","PeriodicalId":80017,"journal":{"name":"Journal (Institute of Sterile Services Management)","volume":"1 1","pages":"8-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21163896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organization of health & safety in hospitals.","authors":"P Howlett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I intend to concentrate on how we have tackled the practicalities of Health & Safety at St Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth. We have tried to comply effectively, not just give lip service and to take a positive management initiative rather than a purely defensive attitude. This is not merely a response to the loss of crown immunity but a course of action we had already started. Key elements are the appointment of Safety and Audit Managers (SAMs) and Statements of Organisation and Arrangements (SOA) for each department and the conduct of the Health and Safety Committee.</p>","PeriodicalId":80017,"journal":{"name":"Journal (Institute of Sterile Services Management)","volume":"1 1","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21162017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}