This report was commissioned from the King's Fund by the chairman of the twelve District Health Authorities. It was felt that there was a lack of a factual basis against which to assess the London-wide implications of the plans of the four Thames Regional Health Authorities. This report, which is ...
The aim of this study is to explore the effect of alternative methods of financing health services on health service performance - particularly performance with respect to efficiency and equity - in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. All countries face certain dilemmas in financing health services: health ...
This is the first comprehensive guide for health service managers and other senior staff on all aspects of good public relations practice, including dealings with the press, radio, television etc. Public relations is NOT about 'ducking and weaving against the journalists, silencing abrasive pressure groups and covering up embarrassing mistakes.' ...
This monograph attempts to bring together, for all members of health care planning teams, but especially for administrators and community physicians, the nature and place of planning in the NHS, and its relationship to research and administration.
After 19 years it is clear that the foundations of the NHS are sound, but there is still much readjustment to be achieved within the general plan. It has become increasingly clear that somehow much better cooperation must be achieved if the main divisions of the NHS, hospitals, public health ...
The theme for this conference was the pressure for more medical services, including curative care of all kinds and medical care and for more hospital services of all types, including acute, mixed, long-term and psychiatric services. Each paper provides an objective statement of facts as they exist in each country.
This second conference was presented with very definite and deliberately chosen terms of reference to form the basis of the papers and discussions. These were: 1) in the changing context of hospital administration what are the most important problems of today?; 2) how are these problems being dealt with and ...
This conference was convened to consider and discuss the hospital services, their organisation and scope with special reference to methods of administration. From each country was presented a paper written by the representative of that country dealing in fairly general terms with the principal features of its acute hospital service.