The article takes its cue from models of quantitative research applied to complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) and pinpoints some innovative features in the case at issue (Portugal). It goes on to outline new research scenarios moving beyond the either biomedical or CAM framework.

The British National Health Service (NHS) before its 1990s internal-market reforms was a gridlock of perverse incentives. The internal market, an attempt to introduce some market incentives, stimulated much innovation in primary care commissioning and practice improvement and led to increased efficiency. However, its effects were quite limited, because the essential conditions for a market to o...

Generally speaking, the British and the German health care systems differ not only with respect to their financing and service provision arrangements, but also with respect to the underlying governance mechanisms. For the most part, the British health care system and in particular its core, the National Health Service (NHS), is funded out of general taxation. The German health care system, by c...

To cite: Astbury-Ward E. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/jfprhc2014-101104 BACKGROUND Before the creation of the National Health Service (NHS), the health of the British nation was in a perilous state and hospitals survived on the philanthropy of rich benefactors. Following its introduction on 5 July 1948, the NHS was the bigges...

Following major reforms of the British National Health Service (NHS) in 1990, the roles of purchasing and providing health services were separated, with the relationship between purchasers and providers governed by contracts. Using a mixed multinomial logit analysis, we show how this policy shift led to a selection of contracts that is consistent with the predictions of a simple model, based on...

The core reform of the British National Health Service (NHS) was the establishment of a quasi market with a split between purchasers and providers. Health authorities and general practitioner (GP) fundholders were to be discriminating purchasers seeking more efficient and responsive services. This market orientation was embedded in a larger context of managerial, allocational, public health, an...

In this paper, we provide a detailed investigation into the quitting behaviour of nurses in the British National Health Service (NHS), using a recently constructed longitudinal survey. We fit both single and competing risks duration models that enable us to establish the characteristics of those nurses who leave the public sector, distinguish the importance of pay in this decision and document ...

The advent of the welfare state has been seen by some historians as a decisive blow for British traditions voluntarism, echoing concerns raised in lead up to establishment National Health Service (NHS). This article examines practice Hospital Sunday England post-war period. In doing so it evidences effect nationalization voluntary hospitals 1948 on relationships between clergy, their congregati...