Derek Wanless' 2002 report on the future course of NHS spending was immensely important. Not only did it directly inform the Chancellor's spending plans for the NHS for the next five years - which gave the NHS an unprecedented real increase of over 40 per cent by 2007/8 - but ...
The report examines the likely impact of the indicative drug budgets for family doctors and the government's general practice fund holding initiative in Britain. The authors believe that the new arrangements will sharpen price competition in the UK medicines market, and welcome this. The study also reports on recent European ...