In continental Europe owners are grumpy, too: in February almost a third of voting shareholders at Novartis, a Swiss drugs firm, demanded the right to approve its remuneration policy each year.But taking bosses to task for their ever-escalating salaries is not a substitute for keen oversight of performance and strategy.
This is likely to provide shock and awe for NHS managers, doctors and nurses, asking how the NHS allowed itself to become enmeshed in such a complicated system of oversight and performance management that it could not see what mattered most: the suffering of frail and vulnerable patients.
A diligent oversight of performance through participating in education and research, protecting and promoting the rights and interests of patients ensuring patients and families are partners in decision making about healthcare.
The rubber-stamp Parliament debates, but it has little power and even less oversight of government performance.
It would be independent of the departments, but performance oversight by the National Audit Office would ensure that it could be held to account.
Mr. Pien said Chiron was trying to recruit outside experts to help with the plan, which would deal with contamination, manufacturing techniques and processes, quality control and oversight, and overall performance.
The chairman, Dale E. Klein, ordered staff members to develop a plan "because of repeated inquiries about the adequacy of N.R.C. oversight and licensee performance" at the two reactors at Indian Point.
It also says that it wants to wait until its performance oversight management group – which is investigating UK Athletics' relationship with Salazar – reports back to them in early August before dispensing its verdict.
Page A11 AUDIT FOR ENERGY LOANS The Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for alternative energy projects needs more rigorous financial oversight and stricter performance standards for recipients to reduce the chance of future defaults, according to an audit conducted by the White House.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for alternative energy projects, which produced the ill-fated loan to the solar panel maker Solyndra, needs more rigorous financial oversight and stricter performance standards for recipients to reduce the chance of future defaults, according to an audit conducted by the White House and released Friday.
