Policy, Organisation and Incentives in Health Systems
Health system policies should incentivise high-quality health care in areas of highest need at the lowest feasible cost. Our aim is to expand our understanding of policies that result in healthier populations and achieve sustainability while being responsive to patients’ needs.
New NHS Act for 1996?
1 October 1984
This booklet contains the background papers prepared for a discussion meeting at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park on 7 and 8 June 1984. The idea…
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…
Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries 1981-82
1 July 1984
Two years ago, the Office of Health Economics published a research paper describing some of the activities of eighteen European pharmaceutical companies in the Developing Countries…
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…
Patterns of European Diagnoses and Prescribing
1 January 1984
In the summer of 1982 the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum held a meeting on ‘Disparities in European Medicine’. The aim was to compare and contrast the various aspects…
Keep on Taking the Tablets? A Review of the Problem of Patient Non-Compliance
1 October 1983
There has always been a problem in making sure that patients take the medicines which doctors prescribe for them in accordance with their instructions. The problem…
Adverse Reactions and the Community
1 November 1982
Conference of Scottish Pharmacists, Aviemore, 21 November 1982. The aim is to do two things. First, to put the experience with benoxaprofen into a broader and…
Ill in Europe
1 October 1982
People pay for some health care themselves out of income and savings. In Britain, out of a total expenditure on health care of all kinds of…
Medicines, Health and the Poor World
1 April 1982
In 1972 the Office of Health Economics produced a paper entitled Medical Care in Developing Countries. Drawing on both information available within the pharmaceutical industry and…