UK

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…

Future for Pharmaceuticals: the Potential; the Pattern and the Problems

1 June 1983

Britain has very little to be proud of on the industrial front in the 1980s. Many of its traditional industries — the so-called ‘smokestack industries’ —…

Disability in Britain – The Process of Transition

1 July 1981

Following a proposal originally made by the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided late in 1976 that 1981…

Medicines for the year 2000

1 September 1979

A symposium held at the Royal College of Physicians, London in September 1978 by the Office of Health Economics. I do not want to trespass into…

Scarce Resources in Health Care

2 January 1979

Over the past few years serious efforts have been made in Britain and elsewhere to achieve a more rational distribution of health care resources. It has…

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…

Health Care Research Expenditure

1 June 1978

In the financial year 1976-77 over £220 million was spent on health care research in the United Kingdom. Taking account of recent expenditure growth and making…

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…

Estimating Pharmaceutical Companies’ Value to the Nation: Case Study of the British Pharma Group

1 February 2007