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Human Relations in General Practice
1 July 1969
Proceedings of a Symposium held at The Royal College of General Practitioners, London 15 September 1968 It is frequently suggested that personal relationships between General Practitioners and their patients are…
Critical Review of the Quality and Competition Measures and Identification Strategies Used in Health Care Studies
1 December 2011
Prepared as background for the OHE Commission on Competition, this paper provides an overview of the published literature detailing the links between quality and competition in health care systems. It…
The Effect of an Increase in the Rate of Payment on General Practitioner’s Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
1 November 2011
This paper investigates how the increased rate of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payments implemented on 1 April 2005 affects Scottish general practitioners’ (GPs) intrinsic, extrinsic and overall motivation. A…
Achieving World Class Outcomes in Cancer Treatment
1 July 2011
The speaker for the OHE’s 16th Annual Lecture was Sir Mike Richards, National Clinical Director for Cancer and End of Life Care in England’s Department of Health. In his presentation,…
Building for Health
1 July 1970
In 1948 the newly created National Health Service inherited a stock of buildings which varied very widely in both quality and quantity from area to area. Hospitals formed the major…
A Comparison of Alternative Variants of the Lead and Lag Time TTO
12 January 2010
OHE was awarded a UK Department of Health grant to further develop three aspects of health status indexes. Results of the second of these, advances in Time Trade Off (TTO)…
Ophthalmic Service
1 July 1970
inscription, ‘Here lies Salvino Armato, the inventor of spectacles’. The inscription is probably inaccurate since both the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Chinese were aware of the properties of crude…
Interventions that Encourage High-value Nursing Home Care: Lessons for the UK
1 August 2017
This OHE Seminar Briefing summarises a seminar given by Professor David Grabowski, which provided a health economics perspective on how payment and delivery interventions can encourage high-value nursing home care….
Hospital Purchasing
1 September 1972
Out of £868 minion spent on the revenue account of the hospital service in England and Wales in 1970, £242 million, or a little over one quarter, was spent on…