Publications
Scarce Resources in Health Care
2 January 1979
Over the past few years serious efforts have been made in Britain and elsewhere to achieve a more rational distribution of health care resources. It has…
Accidents
1 November 1978
On each day in 1976 in England and Wales approximately forty-one people died and thousands more were either severely or slightly injured as a result of…
Cost of the NHS
1 October 1978
In 1978 the cost of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom will rise, to an estimated record level of £8,000 million. Even when adjusted…
Birth Impairments
9 January 1978
Most of the 600,000 babies born in England and Wales each year are healthy and have before them the prospect of active lives spanning seventy years…
Health Care Research Expenditure
1 June 1978
In the financial year 1976-77 over £220 million was spent on health care research in the United Kingdom. Taking account of recent expenditure growth and making…
Mental Handicap: ways forward
1 April 1978
This paper analyses the occurrence and causes of reduced mental ability and its handicapping consequences with the objective of highlighting those areas where there is most…
Pharmaceutical Prices: A continental view
1 April 1978
It has not normally been OHE policy to reprint articles which have previously been published elsewhere. However, it seemed desirable to make an exception for this…
Renal Failure a priority in health?
4 January 1978
The incidence of treatable chronic renal failure in Britain and other Western countries is very small indeed. The most commonly quoted figure is forty people (under…
Physical Impairment: Social Handicap
1 November 1977
Britain’s one and a half million physically handicapped people do not form a homogeneous group. It is wrong to regard them as a discrete section of…