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.
Science, Industry in the State
7 January 1965
Based on a series of six lectures discussing some of the special considerations which arise when a science based industry has the government as a major…
Local Health Services
7 January 1965
The structure of the National Health Service today is tripartite in form. There is the Hospital Services sector accounting for about two thirds of the total…
Costs of Medical Care
1 July 1964
The cost of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom now exceeds £l,000m. per year. Ten years ago, when expenditure was less than half this…
Finance of Medical Research
7 January 1964
The explosive progress of medical science during the past twenty-five years has brought about a revolution in the health of the community and in the problems…
Personal Health Services: A Perspective of the General Medical & the Pharmaceutical Services
1 October 1963
Behind the planning of the National Health Service lay the proposition that everyone should be entitled to the services of a personal physician. For the first…
Hospital Costs in Perspective
1 June 1963
Rising hospital costs have caused concern to the public, Government, and Members of Parliament ever since the start of the National Health Service. They are at present…
Health Services in Western Europe
5 January 1963
Britain is not unique in having a health service. Practically every European country has accepted the provision of medical care as a community responsibility. Amongst the…