Figures show big increase in outstanding general practice premises fees

Abortion requests increase in Latin America after Zika warning, figures show.

Requests for abortions fromwomen in Latin American countries increased dramatically after the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) issued an alert on Zika virus in November 2015, an analysis has shown. In response to the alert, several countries issued health warnings that advised women to avoid pregnancy. Abortion is illegal or very restricted in most Latin American countries but the nonpro...

Optimizing Bank Overdraft Fees with Big Data

In 2012, consumers paid $32 billion in overdraft fees, representing the single largest source of revenue for banks from demand deposit accounts during this period. Owing to consumer attrition caused by overdraft fees and potential government regulations to reform these fees, financial institutions have become motivated to investigate their overdraft fee structures. Banks need to balance the rev...

General practice research: in the big league at last?

The case for differential capitation fees based on age in British general practice.

A study was performed to assess whether the existing differential capitation fees for general practitioners accurately assess differential workloads. Data from the third morbidity study in general practice were used to compare capitation fees with relative workload in differing age and sex groups. The population mix which determined the payment by capitation for the 143 principals in the study ...

Fees and Encroachment on Private Practice.

To the Editors of THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. DEAR SIRS,-I write to congratulate those responsible for the Annotation-Fees-in your Journal of July, which gives timely support to the long-established custom of doctors engaged in private practice being free to name their own fees and mnodify them to meet their patients' circumstances. As there can be little doubt that the pre-eminence o...