Publications
Hip Replacement in the NHS
1 March 1982
Of all forms of joint replacement operation, that for hips represents the most outstanding innovation. It is perhaps the major post-war surgical development and the key…
Costs and Benefits of Regulating New Product Development in the UK Pharmaceutical Industry
3 January 1982
This is the second in an occasional series of Pharmaceutical Industry Papers to be published by OHE. The first concerned prices; this second paper is concerned,…
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Following a proposal originally made by the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided late in 1976 that 1981…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…