OBJECTIVES To assess the value of conducting a glaucoma screening randomized controlled trial in the UK. METHODS Decision model based economic evaluation and value of information analysis. Model derived from a previous health technology assessment. Model updated in terms of structure and parameter estimates with data from surveys, interviews with members of the public and health care provider...

T research findings from the NHS R&D Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme influence key decision-making bodies such as the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Screening Committee (NSC) who rely on HTA outputs to help raise standards of care. HTA findings also help to improve the quality of the service in the NHS indirectly in that they form a key component...

BACKGROUND 'NHSPlus' was conceived as a national agency that would provide occupational health services to organizations, for a fee, without imposing any financial burden on the taxpayer. This self-funding requirement brings into focus the resource implications for such a service and the determination of the charges to be made to external clients. AIM The existing provision of occupational he...

There is currently little understanding of bariatric patients’ experiences and expectations the pre-surgery evaluation (PSE) process. This especially true for patients within National Health Service (NHS) in UK. Consequently, this study undertakes a qualitative to explore PSE amongst who had undergone surgery NHS UK, using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Three inter-related superordin...

INTRODUCTION Reducing premature death is a key priority for the UK National Health Service (NHS). NHS Ambulance services treat approximately 30 000 cases of suspected cardiac arrest each year but survival rates vary. The British Heart Foundation and Resuscitation Council (UK) have funded a structured research programme--the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes (OHCAO) programme. The aim of t...

Performance targets are commonly used in the public sector, despite their well known problems when organisations have multiple objectives and performance is difficult to measure. It is possible that such targets may work where there is considerable consensus that performance needs to be improved. We investigate this possibility by examining the response of the English National Health Service (N...

MRC-Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, UK UCL Research Department of Infection and Population Health, London, UK Neuroradiology Academic Unit, UCL Department of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation, Institute of Neurology, London, UK NMR Research Unit, UCL Department of Neuroinflammation, Queen Square MS Centre, Institute of Neurology, London, UK Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, B...

Jane Wilcock Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, RFUCLMS, London, UK, Michelle Bryans Department of Clinical and Counselling Psychology, NHS Lanarkshire, East Kilbride, UK, Stephen Turner Dental Health Services Research Unit, Dundee, Scotland, UK, Ronan O’Carroll Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK, John Keady Northumbria University/for Demen...

Aims The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Medical Training Initiative is a scheme aimed at psychiatrists from lower and middle-income countries to work train in the National Health Service (NHS) UK for up 2 years before returning their home countries. They came various cultural backgrounds, however, there lack study being done on how these differences experiences are impacting newly recruited MT...

BACKGROUND Undertaking a period of voluntary work or a professional placement overseas has long been a feature of medical training in the UK. There are now a number of high profile National Health Service (NHS) initiatives aimed at increasing access to such opportunities for staff at all levels. We present findings from a qualitative study involving a range of NHS staff and other stakeholders w...