This publication is a comprehensive review of health care and policy issues. From 2000, there will be three issues per year. It contains a calendar of events for the months October 1999 to February 2000 as well as discussion of key policy issues. Specific areas dealt with in this issue ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1996 to 1997. The first part examines the main events of the year in five key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; community care ; public health strategy; serving the consumer; and clinical knowledge. The second part of the work contains ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1996 to 1997. The first part examines the main events of the year in five key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; community care ; public health strategy; serving the consumer; and clinical knowledge. The second part of the work contains ...
This report provides a comprehensive review of the health and health care of the population of London, based on a variety of published and unpublished data sources. The report considers London in three ways: first, by providing comparisons between different parts of the capital; second, by comparing areas of London ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1995 to 1996. The first part examines the main events of the year in five key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; community care ; public health strategy; serving the consumer; and clinical knowledge. The second part of the work contains ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1994 to 1995. The first part examines the events of the year in four key policy areas: creating the new NHS ; promoting community care ; promoting public health ; promoting the interests of users. The second part of the work looks ...
This Review is based on the financial year 1993 to 1994. The first part describes developments in each of the main policy areas of `The health of the nation', the Patient's Charter and community care implementation. For the first time results of the systematic research into the effects of the ...
This conference was organised by the King's Fund Centre in conjunction with the Management Support and Computers Division of the DHSS. The purpose was to present and discuss progress made in developing and applying `performance criteria' in relation to assessing effectiveness and efficiency in the NHS. The performance criteria technique ...
In evidence to the Royal Commission, a frequent complaint was that the reorganised structure with its principle of consensus management had led to massive delays in decision-making. Previous studies have examined the process of decision-making through interviews with a sample of NHS staff. The paper reproduced here explores the feasibility ...
This document reports a conference on chiropody which was arranged in three parts. The first included some of the less well-known aspects of chiropody which the Society of Chiropodists believes should be developed both because they are of benefit to patients and cost-effective in various ways. The second was directed ...