This document reviews some elements of health services which have been or may be the subject of standards and some characteristics of the standards themselves.
This paper is concerned with policy making in the Swedish health service. The paper begins with a description of the organisation of the Swedish health service and a brief summary of the main issues of debate within the service. This is followed by an examination of the role of the ...
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 ...