The reforms proposed in the 2010 UK National Health Service (NHS) White Paper hold the
potential for major changes to the landscape of the NHS. Although the third sector is not …

The adoption of a patient-centric approach to healthcare delivery in the National Health
Service (NHS) in the UK has led to changing requirements for information systems …

Ever since the NHS White Paper was published in July 2010, debate has raged as to
whether this is a revolutionary or evolutionary policy programme. At the time, the …

This thesis investigates the emergence and significance of the phenomenon termed the
contemporary promise of quality in healthcare. This phenomenon is shown to be part and …

Western governments face increasing demands to achieve both cost efficiency and
responsiveness in their public services leading to radical and challenging transformations …

This article considers three behavioural models of the incentives on managers of providers
of health care to use information on their performance to improve, and evidence of the …

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects an estimated 1.2 million people
across England, equating to 2% of the overall population. The respiratory disease can be …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act marked a watershed in US health policy, but
controversy over its passage rages on, and much uncertainty surrounds the law's …

Public health spending in advanced economies is projected to rise by an average of 3
percentage points of GDP over the next 20 years and by 6½ percentage points of GDP in the …

The NHS should not be immune from the drive to reduce public spending. The structural
deficit in the public sector is due to sustained over-spending and the largest part of that …