NHS priorities and RAWP

Morality and Markets in the NHS

Since its establishment in 1948, the history of the National Health Service (NHS) has been characterized by organisational turbulence and system reform. At the same time, progress in science, medicine and technology throughout the western world have revolutionized the delivery of healthcare. The NHS has become a much loved, if much critiqued, national treasure. It is against this backdrop that ...

NHS Values, Compassion and Quality Indicators for Relationship Based Person-Centred Healthcare; Comment on “Morality and Markets in the NHS”

The paper by Gilbert et al. should be on the table of every politician and National Health Service (NHS) manager in the run up to the general election, when the NHS is at the hustings. They have raised profound moral dilemmas of the internal and external market in their present form, such as the practicalities of distributive justice and the enhancement of autonomy – to which are added the pres...

NHS Blood and Transplant.

Attendees: NHSBT Vicky Griffin (Chair), Stakeholder Relations Manager (VG) Tamsin May, Marketing and Campaigns Manager (TM) Heather O Shea (Minutes), Senior Stakeholder Relations Officer (HO S) Pauline O Brien, Media & PR Manager (PO B) Sarah Whyte, Media and PR Officer (SW) Transplant Sport (TS) Jo Brown, Administrator (JB) Donor Family Network (DFN) Nigel Burton, Vice Chairman (NB) British Ki...

Medicine in Society Setting Priorities in the NHS: A Framework for Decision-Making. The Royal College of Physicians, London, 1995

Medicine in Society J. Grimley Evans Setting Priorities in the NHS : A Framework for Decision-Making. The Royal College of Physicians, London, . The R-word is out of its cage. The idea that demand for health services in the United Kingdom is outstripping the resources made available has been in the public domain for some years. Politicians of both major parties are unwilling to admit that s...

RAWP and the Oxford Region. Part I--The impact on medical care of DHSS economies.