Nicholas Mays

Making Health Policy

Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy...

Synthesizing Qualitative and Quantitative Health Research

Every year a vast number of research studies and a myriad of other forms of ‘evidence’ are produced that have potential to inform policy and pract...

Making Health Policy

""Making Health Policy" is an excellent and easily accessible introduction to its subject and thus of particular interest to all those who seek to inf...

Making Health Policy, 3e

“This is the best textbook on health policy.” Prof Uta Lehmann, Director, School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa “The...

Resource Allocation in the Health Service

A Review of the Methods of the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP)

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Quality Improvement in General Practice: what Do GPs and Practice Managers Think?.

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How to Regulate Health Care in England?

An International Perspective

This report compares the regulatory framework in four health systems: the Autonomous Community of Catalonia in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and New...

Public-private Relations in Health Care

Aimed at policy makers and politicians, this work focuses on a live political issue: public-private relations in health care. It shows that the NHS an...

What Were the Achievements of Total Purchasing Pilots in Their First Year and how Can They be Explained?

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Accident and Emergency Care at the Primary-secondary Interface

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Funding and performance of healthcare systems in the four countries of the UK before and after devolution

a longitudinal analysis of the four countries, 1996/97, 2002/03 and 2006/07 supplemented by cross-sectional regional analysis of England, 2006-2007

Examines the impacts of political devolution in 1999 to the Scottish Parliament and Assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland, on what has now become, ...

Accountability of Total Purchasing Pilot Projects

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A New Age for Pharmacy Practice Research

Promoting Evidence-based Practice in Pharmacy

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Purchaser Plurality in UK Health Care

Is a Consensus Emerging and is it the Right One?

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Management and Resource Allocation in End-stage Renal Failure Units

A Review of Current Issues

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Can Primary Care Groups and GPs Purchase Health Care?

The Total Purchasing Experiment in Britain

This text is based on the national evaluation of total purchasing pilot projects. It covers areas such as different interpretations of total purchasin...