The National Health Service and the private sector should be complementary; each needs the other. It is highly improbable that the Health Service will be privatised; much more likely that private practice will be publicised by bringing it within the National Health Service. This article discusses the size and growth of the private sector, looks at cost containment and quality and examines the p...

Funding J.L.H. is funded by a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship (FS/10/65/28404).This study is also partly fundedby theTechnology Strategy Board/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Magnetic Resonance Guided Therapy of Cardiac Arrhythmia (MaRGiTA) grant (TS/G002142/1) and The Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering funded by the Wellcome Tr...

Despite fiscal stress, public confidence in the National Health Service (NHS) remains strong; privatisation has not hollowed out the service. But if long term challenges are to be overcome, pragmatism not rhetoric should be the guide.

Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Medical Engineering Centre, The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kin...

Patient choice is not new to the National Health Service (NHS). The nationalisation of hospitals at the founding of the NHS made it possible for a patient to go to any NHS hospital with a referral from a general practitioner (GP). In practice, however, GPs made these decisions on behalf of their patients and, for the majority of the 60-odd years since the inception of the NHS, patient flows to ...

background employee engagement is the emotional commitment of the employee towards the organisation. we aimed to analyse baseline work engagement using utrecht work engagement scale (uwes) at a teaching hospital.   methods we have conducted a cross-sectional study within the national health service (nhs) teaching hospital in the uk. all participants were working age population from both genders...

This article examines British medical debates about cancer education in the 1950s, debates that reveal how those responsible for cancer control thought about the public and their relationship to it, and what they thought the new political economy of medicine introduced by the National Health Service would mean for that relationship. Opponents of education campaigns argued that such programs wou...