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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:…
Sources of Information for Prescribing Doctors in Britain
9 January 1977
The information which pharmaceutical manufacturers provide for prescribing doctors – in the form of sales promotion and advertising – has been the subject of considerable and sometimes acrimonious controversy in…
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…
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…
Doctors, Nurses and Midwives in the NHS
1 November 1981
There have been substantial increases in all categories of professional manpower in the National Health Service since it was first established in 1949. This Briefing examines and discusses the trends…
New NHS Act for 1996?
1 October 1984
This booklet contains the background papers prepared for a discussion meeting at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park on 7 and 8 June 1984. The idea for the meeting came…
Politics of Prescribing
1 January 1985
This briefing is based on a lecture given by George Teeling Smith. At present Britain is one of the seven most successful countries in the world in its record of…
People as Patients and Patients as People
1 February 1989
Despite much of the current discussion, Britain’s National Health Service has been an outstanding success during its 40 years of existence. Its present problems stem primarily from the way in…