Publications

Doctors, Nurses and Midwives in the NHS

1 November 1981

There have been substantial increases in all categories of professional manpower in the National Health Service since it was first established in 1949. This Briefing examines…

Accidents in childhood

1 September 1981

During the last 30 years the proportion of deaths occurring in childhood caused by accidents has risen from 21 to 30 per cent. This development is…

Price Comparisons of Identical Products in Japan, the United States and Europe

1 August 1981

The promotion of an environment in which the multinational research-based pharmaceutical industry can flourish has been and will continue to be reliant upon a well-informed and…

Sickness Absence – A Review

8 January 1981

Absence from work stems from a variety of sources including industrial action, lateness and ill-health. Of these the latter is by far the most significant cause…

Disability in Britain – The Process of Transition

1 July 1981

Following a proposal originally made by the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided late in 1976 that 1981…

Trends in European Health Spending

5 January 1981

In Europe, as in other developed countries, health expenditures have recently been rising proportionately faster than national wealth. Between 1960 and 1978 the percentage of gross…

Alcohol: Reducing the Harm

1 April 1981

Produced easily by fermentation, ethyl alcohol has for at least 5 to 8 thousand years played a part in the development of human civilisation; as a…

Economic Aspects of the Development of New Medicines

1 January 1981

A lecture, on the economics of developing new drugs, particularly in relation to whether this should be a national or private enterprise.  I have chosen to…

Health Research in England: Topic for Debate

1 January 1981

This paper is derived from the proceedings of an Office of Health Economics Study Day, held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology on 11…