Health Care Systems
Health care systems organise the finance and delivery of health care. They vary by country, reflecting specific history, culture, and economics. To maximise coverage and efficiency they must evolve with changing demographics, needs, and technologies.
Reducing Harm to Patients in the National Health Service. Will the Government’s Compensation Proposals Help?
1 December 2003
The UK government hopes that the proposals in the report of the Department of Health’s Chief Medical Officer “Making Amends” (CMO, 2003) will make its NHS…
Quality in Primary Care: Economic Approaches to Analysing Quality-Related Physician Behaviour
6 January 2003
This monograph sets out the insights from applying an economic perspective to a fundamental problem for any health service: ensuring cost-effective care when outcomes from care…
Influencing Prescribing in a Primary Care Led NHS
11 January 2002
The aim of the project was to evaluate the likely success of medicines management in a primary care led UK National Health Service (NHS). The methods…
Don’t Look Back? Voluntary and Charitable Finance of Hospitals
1 July 2001
This book provides a reassessment of the role of charitable and voluntary fundraising for health care, with a particular focus on the hospital. It does so…
The Links of Public Health and Economic Development
5 January 2001
I am really grateful to have the chance to spend an hour with you to talk about a subject of enormous importance. I am particularly gratified…
Why Care About Health Inequality?
1 January 2001
Public policy in the UK is placing increasing emphasis on health inequalities. The first signal of this renewed commitment came soon after the Labour government was…
Managing to do Better: General Practice in the 21st Century
1 July 2000
Health systems the world over are striving to manage their available resource to deliver the best value for the public’s health. For most nations, the general…
Surgical Research and Development in the NHS – Promotion, Management and Evaluation
1 July 2000
Based on papers delivered at the OHE Conference, London, 25 November 1997. Based on papers delivered at the OHE Conference, London, 25 November 1997. The UK…
Benchmarking and Incentives in the NHS
5 January 2000
This paper examines general issues in the use of benchmarking as a measure of comparative performance, reviews the application of benchmarking in the public and private…