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Critical Review of the Quality and Competition Measures and Identification Strategies Used in Health Care Studies
1 December 2011
…quality provides no clear answers. Moreover, since the bulk of the research that is available has been done in the US, results are not necessarily applicable in the NHS setting….
Hospital Purchasing
1 September 1972
…onto that optimal level while the Hospital Management Committees and Boards of Governors still retain the powers vested in them under the NHS Act. Attempts to reorganise hospital purchasing since…
Infant and Child Health
1 December 1975
…and effective antibiotics in addition to the establishment of the NHS, the evolution of the welfare services and the significant advances in the medical speciality of paediatrics have all contributed…
Physical Impairment: Social Handicap
1 November 1977
…related to chronic, degenerative illnesses of middle and later life have created new demands on the NHS and allied agencies, particularly at the primary care level. The resulting tensions may…
Preventing Bronchitis
1 April 1977
…conditions cost the NHS approximately £100 million whilst the economic burden they placed on the community in terms of lost production was probably of the order of £250 million. The…
Mental Handicap: ways forward
1 April 1978
…of NHS and local authority care which has emerged it also considers the likely impact of economic restraints and new thinking on the social and educational needs of mentally handicapped…
Huntington’s Chorea
1 March 1980
…In fact such is the severity of the disablement it causes in its terminal stages that despite its rarity NHS and social service caring costs alone are estimated to be…
Leukaemia: Towards Control
6 January 1980
…only by a process of prolonged, careful therapeutic experimentation and evaluation. This carries with it important implications regarding the distribution of the limited resources available to the NHS, even though…
Alcohol: Reducing the Harm
1 April 1981
…prescribed group of the latter substances are the benzodiazapine tranquillisers and hypnotics, some 30 million scripts for which were filled in 1979. The cost to the NHS (£1979) was a…