All articles by John Appleby – Page 4
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Health inquality targets
The Department of Health has bitten the bullet and set national targets for reducing health inequalities. Achieving them is likely to prove difficult and beyond the scope of the NHS alone, says John Appleby
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Coronary heart disease
A survey on NHS patients' experiences of coronary heart disease suggests that even 'green light' hospitals have no justification for complacency, says John Appleby
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Outpatient waiting
Understanding how the outpatient system interacts with the rest of the NHS is important - but assessing waiting-list performance is far from straightforward, writes John Appleby
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hospital infections
Nearly one in 10 patients acquires a new infection in hospital, at a cost to the NHS of around £931m. And some of it could be avoided, reports John Appleby
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data briefing
Increased health spending does not necessarily mean a healthier population. John Appleby looks at how the use of different measures can lead to contradictory outcomes
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Medical Insurance
A comparison of five countries' health payment systems reveals that where private insurance dominates, fewer people get the healthcare they need, says John Appleby
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Eletrocovulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy has been around for more than 50 years, yet information on how it works is scant and treatment data is under-recorded. John Appleby reports
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NICE data briefing
Does NICE's remit lack scope? John Appleby assesses the evidence emerging from the assessments so far
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Waiting-list initiative
Even health ministers would say that targeting the length of waiting lists rather than admission waiting times has been a mistake. But it isn't that simple, argues John Appleby
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Income distribution
With Labour's Budgets showing evidence of old-style redistribution, perhaps the NHS could set a trend by looking at its own income inequalities, says John Appleby
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NHS funding
Throwing more money at the NHS in a bid to match health spending in other countries will only create a self-defeating cycle of higher and higher expectations, writes John Appleby
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modernisation fund
The much-touted modernisation fund owes more to smoke and mirrors than a desire to dish out significant extra cash, says John Appleby
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Performance indicators
On the eve of new performance indicator frameworks, John Appleby says much useful information remains to be extracted from existing statistics
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Social science
The economics of social spending 2nd edition Edited by Howard Glennerster and John Hills Oxford University Press 363 pages 40