NHS Organisation

The changing role of the NHS over time

14 August 2023

OHE has been producing reports since 1962 which give insights into issues facing the NHS in the 75 years since it was created. The first part…

Can a continued focus on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment see the NHS to another 75 years?

27 July 2023

We have delved into the OHE archives to reflect on past NHS successes. In part one of a two-part Insight series, we look at three major contributors to shorter life expectancies – tuberculosis, heart disease, and cancer.

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…

Understanding the NHS in the 1980’s

1 May 1984

The National Health Service will spend around £17,000 million in the UK in 1984: it employs more than 1.2 million full-time and part-time staff. Thus as…

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…

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.…

NHS Reorganisation

1 February 1974

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