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The English national health service: An economic health check

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22-Jul-2009

Peter Smith and Maria Goddard

This paper provides an overview of the organisation and financing of the National Health Service, reviews its performance, assesses the reforms since the start of the decade and provides recommendations for further development. 

Briefing note for OECD Health Data 2009: How Does the United Kingdom Compare

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01-Jul-2009

Total health spending accounted for 8.4% of GDP in the United Kingdom in 2007, compared with an average of 8.9% across OECD countries.

Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2009: The NHS: an economic health check

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29-Jun-2009

The government’s health reform programme since 2000 has covered many aspects of the organisation of health care and was accompanied by a sizeable increase in spending on healthcare. Many of these reforms ...

Migration of Health Workers: The UK Perspective to 2006

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15-Oct-2008

James Buchan, Susanna Baldwin and Miranda Munro

In the late 1990s shortages of skilled staff were a main obstacle to improving services in the NHS. The response by government was to “grow” the NHS workforce.

Current Developments in Manufactured Nanomaterials in the United Kingdom

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14-Apr-2008

This paper, which was submitted by the British delegation, shows the current developments in nanotechnology in the United Kingdlom, given at the 3rd Meeting of the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, ...

UK Report on Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities

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22-May-2007

Published in May 2007, this study was carried out by leading sustainability consultants, Oakdene Hollins, who were commissioned by Defra to investigate the opportunities and potential obstacles to adoption ...

Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People (Health Working Paper No. 26)

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30-Mar-2007

Gaétan Lafortune, Gaëlle Balestat

As the number and share of the population aged 65 and over will continue to grow steadily in OECD countries over the next decades, improvements in the functional status of elderly people could help mitigate the rise in the demand for, and hence expenditure on, long-term care.

Improving Co-ordination between Environmental and Health Policies: Final Report

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05-Mar-2007

The report provides evidence-based recommendations to improve policy co-ordination between environment and health. It incluses case studies on Canada, France and the United Kingdom to better understand the existing level of co-ordination between environmental and health policies.