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Health Financing and Pharmaceutical Policy Reform in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
12 January 1997
The objective of this report is to provide an assessment of the reform process of the health care sector in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CCEE). It shall…
Prescribing, Budgets and Fundholding in General Practice
10 January 1997
In April 1991, a radical programme of public health care reform was introduced by the Conservative Government. The avowed intention of the programme was to improve the overall quality of…
Theory and Evidence on Cost Sharing in Health Care: An Economic Perspective
1 December 1997
…cost sharing and other policy instruments; • Section 3 discusses the different forms that cost sharing may take, with particular emphasis on the economic incentives offered by different payment systems;…
Competition and contestability between acute hospitals
1 March 1998
The 1989-1991 Conservative reforms of the National Health Service (NHS) introduced fundamental changes in the organisation of health care in the UK. At the same time they emphasised for the…
GP Commissioning Groups – The Nottingham Experience
1 December 1998
From 1 April 1999 the structure of the Health Services in the United Kingdom will look radically different. In England there will be Primary Care Groups (PCGs), in Scotland Primary…
Managed Care – A Model for the UK?
3 January 1998
This paper examines the potential for managed care techniques to develop in the UK National Health Service. It begins with a review of managed care approaches but no attempt is…
Disease Management, the NHS and the Pharmaceutical Industry
1 March 1999
Share this: Download publication Anne R. Mason Michael F. Drummond Adrian Towse Disease management is a term with multiple and ambiguous meanings. For some, it is purely a form of…
Leadership, Change and Primary Care Groups
1 October 1999
A number of important themes emerged, as well as some signals as to the leadership development needs of those charged with ensuring PCGs’ success. They challenges they face are to:……
Organisational Costs in the New NHS
1 April 1999
…transaction costs, are likely to be qualitatively different from those incurred under the pre-1990 system, internal costs, since the problems relating to uncertainty and conflict differ in the two systems….