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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…
The Effect of an Increase in the Rate of Payment on General Practitioner’s Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
1 November 2011
…the increased QOF payment effectively motivated GPs’ health care supply, but it also ‘crowded out’ GPs’ intrinsic motivation. The result suggests that using strong financial incentives to further motivate already…
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…
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:…