Publications
Costs of Mental Care
7 January 1965
Expenditure by the National Health Service in England and Wales on patients suffering mental disorders currently exceeds £130m. a year, about one-eighth of the total health…
Local Health Services
7 January 1965
The structure of the National Health Service today is tripartite in form. There is the Hospital Services sector accounting for about two thirds of the total…
Residue of Poliomyelitis
7 January 1965
One of the consequences of ill health which can have the profoundest social and economic effect is a legacy of chronic and permanent disability. It may…
Work Lost through Sickness
1 July 1965
In Great Britain during 1963, over 9¼m. new claims for sickness benefits were registered with the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. A total of nearly…
Infants at Risk
1 July 1964
The pattern of mortality changes as a community advances and matures. In under developed societies, mortality is greatest during the first five years of life. As…
New Frontiers in Health
7 January 1964
A review of the incidence, impact and implications of minor and unrecognised illness in the community This booklet is about the future of medicine. It presents information…
Costs of Medical Care
1 July 1964
The cost of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom now exceeds £l,000m. per year. Ten years ago, when expenditure was less than half this…
Finance of Medical Research
7 January 1964
The explosive progress of medical science during the past twenty-five years has brought about a revolution in the health of the community and in the problems…
Pattern of Diabetes
1 July 1964
Over the past 40 years, diabetes has changed from a progressive or rapidly fatal disease in to a controlled chronic disorder with mortality confined mainly to…