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Getting the Most out of PROMs: Putting Health Outcomes at the Heart of NHS Decision-Making
1 March 2010
In 2009, the English NHS began collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for four elective procedures. Using a series of structured questions that ask patients about their health from their point…
Sixty Years of the NHS: Changes in Demographics, Expenditure, Workforce and Family Services
1 September 2008
This series of articles celebrates the 60th anniversary of the UK National Health service (NHS). The series shows how certain areas associated with health have changed over the period. Based…
NHS Reorganisation
1 February 1974
Share this: Download publication Even at the start of the National Health Service’s existence it was realised by many that its internal organisation was to some extent unsatisfactory. Share this:…
Brand Names in Prescribing
1 September 1976
To present a balanced view of the brand name/generic controversy and the associated field of bioavailability. Many have discussed these problems; scientists, politicians, industrialists, legislators, hospital pharmacists, physicians, and clinical…
Sources of Information for Prescribing Doctors in Britain
9 January 1977
…the content and volume of this information under the National Health Service. In response, the pharmaceutical manufacturers have accepted that in this respect they have to operate in a politically…
The Reorganised NHS
1 March 1977
This study of the reorganised National Health Service is divided into two papers. The first describes the new structure and the management concepts on which it was based and the…
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 for the falling value…
Question of Balance: the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceutical Innovation
1 May 1980
…easy answers, despite the often simplistic terms in which such problems are discussed. Finally, every new pharmaceutical ‘scare’ story underlines the importance of careful prescribing. The monograph describes the evidence…
Effects of Prescription Charges
12 January 1980
The annual number of NHS prescriptions dispensed by chemist and appliance contractors in the United Kingdom is falling after a seven year period of expansion. As Figure 1 shows, the…