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Hospital Costs in Perspective
1 June 1963
Rising hospital costs have caused concern to the public, Government, and Members of Parliament ever since the start of the National Health Service. They are at present taxing the minds…
Finance of Medical Research
7 January 1964
…total and the pattern of National Health Service expenditure, which in turn is a reflection of the changes in the procedures of medical care. “New knowledge has taken surgery in…
Medical Manpower
7 January 1966
…practising of whom about half had retired on grounds of ill-health or age.… In 1964 there were estimated to be 55,000 doctors actively engaged in medicine in England and Wales….
Efficiency in the Hospital Service
7 January 1967
In 1965 the National Health Service cost the nation over £1300 million of which the Hospital Service absorbed almost £800 million. Where such very large sums of money are involved,…
Can and Should Value Based Pricing Be Applied to Molecular Diagnostics?
1 April 2012
Diagnostics not only facilitate health gain and cost savings, but also provide information to inform patients’ decisions on interventions and to clarify how their behaviour may affect their health. Current…
The Tougher the Better: The Effect of an Increased Performance Threshold on the Performance of General Practitioners
4 January 2012
…revised version of this paper has been published in Health Economics and can be downloaded from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.3022/abstract Please cite as: Feng, Y., Ma, A., Farrar, S. and Sutton, M., 2015….
Human Relations in General Practice
1 July 1969
…to the psychiatrist, trained social worker and voluntary organisations. In order to provide a platform for analysing the importance of human relations in general practice the Office of Health Economics…
Ophthalmic Service
1 July 1970
…France and Germany. There the optician has remained much more closely associated with the manufacture of spectacles. This paper is concerned with only one specialised part of eye care, that…
Hospital Purchasing
1 September 1972
…which have been used for accounting under the National Health Service. These are the only comprehensive data available at the national level, though they are unable to reflect the diversity…