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 …

This research investigates stakeholders' knowledge of, and experience in, public health
commissioning of alcohol services in North East England. Public health commissioning has …

Con este estudio se buscó hacer un diagnóstico actualizado de la provisión de servicios de
salud en México y contrastarlo con las experiencias de otras cinco naciones: Costa Rica y …

Undergraduate medical education in the UK is dually funded. There is University funding
through the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) or the devolved …

In this thesis I explore the challenges for staff working to reduce harm and implement safety
improvement in New Zealand (NZ) hospitals. Their views are contextualised in four stages …

Background: The NHS in England has been subject to numerous reforms and changes in
health policy since its inception in 1948. Such changes often mean that organisational …

An assessment of what is known about problems related to community-based specialty
clinics, options for addressing these problems, and key implementation considerations. The …

Primary health care (PHC) is an effective way to" optimize and reorganize the health care
service system" and solve the" difficulty in obtaining expensive medical services". In the …

The aim of this study is to evaluate the implementation of the Payment by Results (PbR)
policy in mental health in England through the identification of the driving factors that have …

The objective of this chapter is to examine the particular ways in which Habermas may be
applied to issues currently facing Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). To set …