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Costs of Medical Care
1 July 1964
The cost of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom now exceeds £l,000m. per year. Ten years ago, when expenditure was less than half this amount, the cost of…
Local Health Services
7 January 1965
The structure of the National Health Service today is tripartite in form. There is the Hospital Services sector accounting for about two thirds of the total cost; there is the…
The Effect of Free Personal Care for the Elderly on Informal Caregiving
1 February 2013
Forecasters predict that the population of people aged 65+ in the UK will double by 2050, constituting a quarter of the total population. This will seriously challenge the NHS and…
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…
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,…
Provision of General Medical Care in New Towns
1 July 1967
Proceedings of a Symposium held at College of General Practitioners, London 19th & 20th April 1966 MEETINGS can be of two types. In the first, a small group of experts…
Without Prescription: a Study of the Role of Self-Medication
1 July 1968
The total expenditure on medicines in the United Kingdom in 1966 was £267 million. Of this £188 million was for medicines prescribed on the National Health Service. The other £79…
Medicine and Society: the Changing Demands for Medical Care
1 October 1972
The control of the major health problems of the early part of the twentieth century represents a triumph for medical progress in the past twenty-five years. Developments in pharmacology and…
How Fair? Competition between Independent and NHS Providers to Supply Non-Emergency Hospital Care to NHS Patients in England
1 September 2009
Written while Labour Government policies still were in force, this Briefing clearly and thoroughly examines non-discretionary cost differences between public and independent providers that may have a serious impact on…