General ophthalmic services in Scotland: value for (public) money?

Value For Money in public sector corporate services

Value For Money in public sector corporate services

Measuring access to health services: General Dental Services in Scotland.

OBJECTIVE Recently the issue of access to health services has been brought into sharp focus by clear evidence of rationing--patients queuing for NHS registration--in the NHS General Dental Services (GDS). Conventional estimates suggest that about 50% of adults are registered per annum. This paper demonstrates that these conventional measures of access and utilisation can generate potentially mi...

The National Audit Office Uses OR to Assess the Value for Money of Public Services

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Improved investment in mental health services: value for money?

BACKGROUND This paper examines what has been achieved in the specialist mental health services by the vastly increased health expenditures that the National Health Service (NHS) has enjoyed in the past 5 years. AIMS To describe the way money has been spent in specialist mental health services and examine why problems remain after such admirable changes to already available resources. METHOD...