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The British National Health Service

Exploring 70 Years of the British National Health Service through Anniversary Documents

The British National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 70th birthday on July 5, 2018. This article examines this anniversary through the lens of previous anniversaries. It examines seven documents close to each anniversary over a period of some 60 years, drawing on interpretive content analysis, based on the narrative dimensions of context (structure and finance); success or achievements; pro...

NICE and the British National Health Service

THE INTERPLAY AMONG QUALITY of care, technological innovation, and cost control creates a policy challenge for all health care systems. Improvements in the quality of care can reduce health care costs; for example, better management of chronic conditions may lessen the chance of hospitalization, and new drugs and medical devices might improve the quality and efficiency of care. Often, however, ...

Reorganizing the British National Health Service.

I propose to discuss certain developments in health care arrangements which are planned in the United Kingdom. I will discuss these in terms of Scotland which has a separate health service and a separate health department for which the Secretary of State for Scotland with one of his junior Ministers is responsible to Parliament in Westminster. When the National Health Service was established, S...

The Recent Promotions in the British Medical Service

them who bestowed the faintest blessing on amalgamation and its sequela) in return, though expressions of the opposite sort, both loud and deep, are commoner than we could wish. The latest (we wish we could say it was to be the last) change', ne cessitated by that grossest of blunders, the amalgamation of the two European Armies in this country, was the reorganization of the Administrative Medi...