What Do You Want from the 2001 Census? Results of an ESRC/JISC Survey of User Views

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1775-1796 ◽  
Author(s):  
P H Rees
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

The author describes the results of a survey of user views about the next Census of Population in the United Kingdom, to be held in 2001. Some 140 respondents reported their views, which included strong support for a question on income, endorsement of the new one number census methodology and support for postcode-based outputs. The author sets these views in the context of the Census Development Programme being carried out by the UK Census Offices and the proposals for outputs which are being discussed with the main census user sectors of central and local government, business, the Health Service, and the academic community.

Impact of privatisation and commercialisation on municipal services in the UK

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Municipal Services ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

This article looks at the fundamental changes that have occurred in recent years in the area of public services in the United Kingdom, with a focus on those provided by local government. The various forms of privatisation and commercialisation that have been applied are described. In the second part the in many cases catastrophic impacts on users and workers, for democratic accountability and service quality are detailed. The article closes with a discussion of responses and alternatives.

Overcoming austerity effects through local authority direct action?

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-122
Author(s):  
Janice Morphet ◽  
Ben Clifford
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
Political Act ◽  
The Uk

This chapter deals with the application of austerity since 2010 as a political act designed to transform the way in which local authorities in the United Kingdom operate and are funded. It explains how the local authorities have been dependent on government funding as the UK is considered as one of the most centralised states in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It also recounts how the UK government in 2010 decided that the Revenue Support Grant (RSG) funding paid to councils would be removed through annual tapering to zero by 2020. The chapter probes the intention of the UK government to replace RSG with each of the council's retention of 75 per cent of the local business rates. It analyses the system of local government funding that operated until local government reorganisation in 1974.

Decentralisation and Devolution in the United Kingdom

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Chris Game
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Government Functions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Working Out

The key to the core of this chapter is in its title. Constitutionally, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is still a unitary state comprising three countries – England, Scotland, Wales – plus the province of Northern Ireland. Since 1998, though, the last three have had their own elected parliaments or assemblies and devolved governments, whose responsibilities naturally include most local government functions and operations. It is arguable, therefore, that in practice nowadays the UK is quasi-federal. England, with 84% of the UK population, doesn't have a separate parliament, but is gradually working out its own form of devolution. The chapter describes all these developments, but its detail is largely reserved for the structure and workings of local government in England – elections and elected councillors, services and functions, and its currently rapidly changing finances – and the impact, particularly on councils' financial and policy discretion, of its having, in population terms, by far the largest scale of local government in Western Europe.

scholarly journals Redeployment of ophthalmologists in the United Kingdom during the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 112067212095333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Lim ◽  
Ian De Silva ◽  
George Moussa ◽  
Tahir Islam ◽  
Lina Osman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Prior Training ◽  
Personal Protection Equipment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Good Support

Background: During the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some ophthalmologists across the United Kingdom (UK) have been redeployed to areas of need across the National Health Service (NHS). This survey was performed to assess aspects of this process including training & education, tasks expected, availability of personal protection equipment (PPE) used and the overall anxiety of ophthalmologists around their redeployment. Method: Online anonymous survey around the existing guidance on safe redeployment of secondary care NHS staff and PPE use by NHS England and Public Health England respectively. The survey was open to all ophthalmologists across the UK irrespective of their redeployment status. Findings: 145 surveys were completed and returned during a 2-week period between 17th April 2020 and 1st May 2020, when 52% of ophthalmologists were redeployed. The majority of this group consisted of ophthalmologists in training (79%). 81% of those redeployed were assigned to areas of the hospital where patients with confirmed Coronavirus disease were being treated as inpatients. There was a statistically significant improvement in anxiety level following redeployment which was mainly attributed to the support received by staff within the redeployed area. 71% of the redeployed group were found to have sufficient PPE was provided for the area they worked in. Interpretation: This is the first national survey performed on redeployment of ophthalmologists in the UK. The study showed that ophthalmologists across all grades were able to contribute in most aspects of patient care. Anxiety of redeployment was reduced by prior training and good support in the redeployment area.

OP138 Access To Orphan Drugs In The United Kingdom And Other European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Bernarda Zamora ◽  
Martina Garau ◽  
François Maignen ◽  
Phill O'Neill ◽  
Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Orphan Drugs ◽  
European Medicines Agency ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Orphan Medicinal Products ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Treatments

INTRODUCTION:Under the Orphan Regulation, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) intended to incentivize the research and development of new treatments for rare and life-threatening conditions. Marketing authorisation of orphan medicinal products (OMPs) by the EMA is only the first step, as medicines are made available to patients when reimbursement or Health Technology Assessment (HTA) decisions are implemented by national health systems. We analyzed the availability and access to OMPs in the United Kingdom (UK), France, Germany, Italy and Spain. We compared the availability, which is the possibility to prescribe a given OMP, to the access, which refers to the full or partial reimbursement by the public health service.METHODS:We collected data on launches, HTA decisions, any centralized commissioning and/or reimbursement decision for all the OMPs authorised since 2000 in the UK countries (England, Scotland and Wales), France, Germany, Italy and Spain.RESULTS:Since the Orphan Regulation inception, the EMA granted marketing authorization to 143 OMPs. These OMPs are most widely accessible in Germany and France. Reimbursement in Germany is immediate after authorization. France and Italy present a delay of 19 months from authorization to reimbursement, which is shorter than in other countries. In England, less than 50 percent of centrally authorised OMPs are routinely funded by the National Health Service (NHS), including one-third of these recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and those reimbursed via commissioning policies and the Cancer Drugs Fund.CONCLUSIONS:The assessment of degree of access to OMPs across Europe is limited by differences in the national HTA and reimbursement systems and the heterogeneous information made publicly available on their decisions. Nonetheless, our study suggests that the primary purpose to grant equal availability to OMPs to the patients in the Eropean Union via the implementation of the orphan regulation was partially achieved with important variations of access observed across the countries included in our study.

Recruitment of cancer patients to National Institute for Health research cancer research network portfolio studies between 2001 and 2011.

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 6091-6091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Cooper ◽  
Karen Poole ◽  
David A. Cameron ◽  
Robert Haward ◽  
Peter John Selby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Cancer Research Network ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

6091 Background: The National Institute for Health Research Cancer Research Network (NCRN) was established in 2001 in England, United Kingdom to improve cancer patient outcomes by improving the coordination, integration and speed of cancer research. Methods: Baseline recruitment of cancer patients in England to clinical studies was around 4% of incident population. Research Networks were established initially in England (NCRN) and then across the UK, co-terminus with clinical cancer service networks, and a per capita based funding model used to provide a research infrastructure to support recruitment to a nationally defined research portfolio. Results: Within 3 years, as the networks were established, recruitment of patients to studies doubled from 10,000 to 20,000 cancer patients per year. Recruitment has continued to increase year on year, supported initially by underspend that had accrued from earlier years in the life of NCRN, and more recently from additional resources invested via the NIHR comprehensive networks. Data for 2010/11 show that over 45,000 cancer patients are now recruited into portfolio studies in England each year, with over 50,000 across the whole of the UK. Conclusions: Dedicated, targeted, clinician-led National Health Service investment into supporting national portfolio studies, has delivered an unprecedented five-fold increase in recruitment of cancer patients into clinical trials across the United Kingdom. This required coordinated research infrastructure, close cooperation with research funders, particularly Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Research Institute, and the enthusiasm and hard work of many clinicians, patients and others working to deliver clinical cancer care in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.

Health Systems in the United Kingdom and Their Role in Increasing Equity

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 112 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 716-720
Author(s):  
Leslie Davidson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Levels Of Care ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

The Issue. This article describes the organization of the National Health Service with respect to the primary and secondary levels of care it offers children. It begins with a personal reflection from 17 years ago that is still relevant to the challenges confronting families in the United Kingdom today. It will discuss the basics of what is different and what is similar when comparing the UK health care system to that of the United States.

Criteria for Approval of Training Programmes for Senior Registrars in Orthodontics in the United Kingdom

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-288
Author(s):  
H. S. Orton
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Paediatric Dentistry ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Training Post ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Registrar Training

To be appointed as a consultant orthodontist in the British National Health Service requires a period of 3 + years in a higher training post as a senior registrar in orthodontics. Educational approval of these training posts is controlled by the Joint Committee for Higher Training in Dentistry. The detailed monitoring and requirements of senior registrar training posts are controlled by the Specialist Advisory Committee in Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry. Revised criteria for the approval of training programmes have recently been issued and are appended for the guidance of aspirant trainees, trainers and for the reader seeking an understanding of the UK title of ‘Consultant Orthodontist’.

TBE in United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Clinical Disease ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Probable Case ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South West ◽  
Louping Ill ◽  
The Uk ◽  
North And South ◽  
South West England

Until 2019, TBE was considered only to be an imported disease to the United Kingdom. In that year, evidence became available that the TBEV is likely circulating in the country1,2 and a first “probable case” of TBE originating in the UK was reported.3 In addition to TBEV, louping ill virus (LIV), a member of the TBEV-serocomplex, is also endemic in parts of the UK. Reports of clinical disease caused by LIV in livestock are mainly from Scotland, parts of North and South West England and Wales.4

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