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Coronary Heart Disease: The Need for Action
1 February 1990
…In England and Wales, CHD was responsible for 153, 084 deaths during 1988 – equivalent to nearly 27 per cent of total mortality. More specifically, it is a major cause…
Osteoporosis and the risk of fracture
1 January 1990
…that the discharge rate does not increase (there will in fact be a shift towards a more elderly population) it is estimated that the number of hip fractures in England…
Hospital Acquired Infection
8 January 1997
…be over £170m to the hospital sector in England (Coello et al, 1993). Costs that fall outside the hospital sector and impose burdens on community services, patients and their families…
Competition and contestability between acute hospitals
1 March 1998
…between care providers. In December 1997, the publication of the new Labour government’s own NHS reform White Papers for England and Scotland marked the end of this promotion of competition…
Economic Aspects of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
1 July 1998
…for England and Wales. Using decision analysis software, treatment/outcome trees were constructed to map the expected treatment, clinical outcome and resource use pathways for different categories of NHL patient. This…
From Efficacy to Cost-Effectiveness
1 May 1998
…of cost-effectiveness outcomes from efficacy data. There has been criticism of modelling, notably from the Food and Drug Administration (DDMAC, 1995) and the New England Journal of Medicine (Kassirer and Angel, 1994)….
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History?
1 January 1998
…agenda. There could be no better reminder of the salience of this issue than the production of the three national White Papers, on NHS reorganisation in England, Scotland, and Wales,…
Our Certain Fate: Rationing in Health Care
1 November 1998
…of 1998 (in reality less than £9 billion in England) will not eliminate waiting lists in the UK NHS and meet all other capital and service needs: it will merely…
Organisational Costs in the New NHS
1 April 1999
…Papers which outline reforms to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This section analyses the measures outlined in these papers supposed to reduce organisational costs and concludes…