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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
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Changes to the NHS community pharmacy contract have meant a shift of services from NHS primary care to the for profit community pharmacy sector. Elizabeth Richardson and Allyson M Pollock look at the extent of the changes to community pharmacy in the UK, and explain the implications
BMJ - Elizabeth Richardson and Allyson M Pollock |
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
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The public is being urged to join the BMA’ ‘Look After our NHS’ campaign against the role of commercial companies providing NHS care in England.
Successive government policies have created a market in healthcare and allowed commercially run firms to compete against existing NHS trusts and GP practices to provide NHS care. The BMA is concerned that this is having an adverse impact on many parts of the NHS in England.... Read more
BMA |
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Saturday, 26 December 2009 |
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Three circumstances make the present moment unique for global health. First, health has been increasingly recognized as a key element of sustainable economic development, global security, effective governance, and human rights promotion. Second, due to the growing perceived importance of health, unprecedented—albeit still insufficient—sums of funds are flowing into this sector...
PLoS Medicine |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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The inclusion of private companies within the NHS has been justified by the Government as a way of introducing choice and contestability into the system. This plurality of provision, it argues, will enable the public to make more informed decisions about where they want to be treated, based on the quality of clinical care offered...
Stewart Player
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