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.
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…
Sources of Information for Prescribing Doctors in Britain
9 January 1977
The information which pharmaceutical manufacturers provide for prescribing doctors – in the form of sales promotion and advertising – has been the subject of considerable and…
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…
Brand Names in Prescribing
1 September 1976
To present a balanced view of the brand name/generic controversy and the associated field of bioavailability. Many have discussed these problems; scientists, politicians, industrialists, legislators, hospital…
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…
Medical Care in Developing Countries
1 November 1972
During the course of the past hundred years countries such as Britain have seen a very marked change in their patterns of morbidity and mortality. For…
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.…
Hospital Purchasing
1 September 1972
Out of £868 minion spent on the revenue account of the hospital service in England and Wales in 1970, £242 million, or a little over one…