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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 services’ expenditure. This large…
Medical Manpower
7 January 1966
In 1964 there were estimated to be 55,000 doctors actively engaged in medicine in England and Wales. In addition to these probably some 8000 to 9000 qualified doctors were not…
Common Illness of Our Time: a Study of the Problem of Ischemic Heart Disease
1 July 1966
In England and Wales in 1963, 187,023 deaths were certified as due to diseases of the heart. These included 154,815 deaths due to arteriosclerotic and degenerative heart disease of which…
Operationalising Value Based Pricing of Medicines: A Taxonomy of Approaches
1 August 2011
Recent reforms to the National Health Service (NHS) in England include important changes in the regulation of prices for new medicines. From January 2014, the existing Pharmaceutical Pricing Regulation Scheme…
Age of Maturity
1 July 1969
At the last census in 1966 there were nearly 12 million people aged between 45 and 64 in England and Wales. This age group, which for convenience will be termed…
Hospital Purchasing
1 September 1972
Out of £868 minion spent on the revenue account of the hospital service in England and Wales in 1970, £242 million, or a little over one quarter, was spent on…
Venereal Diseases
1 October 1974
The ‘venereal’ diseases of syphilis and gonorrhoea, whilst deserving close attention, do not constitute one of the major health problems of Britain today. In 1972, in England, about one man…
Accidental deaths
4 January 1975
…6 per cent of all deaths in England and Wales in the 1-4… At first sight it might seem disturbing that accidental deaths are contributing an increasing proportion of the…
Infant and Child Health
1 December 1975
In 1901 approximately 127,000 infants and 81,000 children aged 1-14 died in England and Wales. By 1973, the corresponding figures were 11,500 and 4,500, representing falls of 91 per cent…