NHS

Childhood Vaccination: Current Controversies

1 July 1984

The historical roots of immunisation can probably be traced back to ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations and the observation that adults who survived an attack of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Health Care Dilemma or ‘Am I kranken, doctor?’

1 August 1975

For the past 25 years the problems of the National Health Service in Britain have been considered primarily in terms of a shortage of resources. This…

Canberra Hypothesis: the Economics of the Prescription Medicine Market

1 July 1975

The Office of Health Economics delivered a paper to the Pharmaceutical Sciences Section of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science at the Academy of Sciences in Canberra.

Work of Primary Medical Care

6 January 1974

The United Kingdom’s 25,000 family doctors, together with the nurses, midwives, health visitors, receptionists and others who make up the primary medical care team, deal with…

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.…