scholarly journals Health Services Development Resource Assumptions and Planning Guidelines 1990/1991

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 316-316
Author(s):  
M. M. Tannahill
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Development Resource

In August 1989 the NHS Management Executive of the Department of Health issued Health Authorities with Circular HC(89)24 which lays down planning guidelines and resource assumptions for 1990/91. In five terse pages, the document sets the scene for the Government's priority health issues over the next two years. Several of these issues are of interest and importance to psychiatrists, as they are concerned with the implementation of the White Paper Caring for People: Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond. Health Authorities are asked to “identify the health care needs of their populations” and to set targets, based on reports of their Directors of Public Health, to improve the overall health of their population.

scholarly journals Therapeutic budget modelling: a possible road to budgetary allocations in the public health care setting

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
George K John ◽  
Martie S Lubbe ◽  
Jan HP Serfontein
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Care Structure ◽  
Care Structure

In South Africa, 70% of the country’s population is dependent on the public health care sector (especially the primary health care structure) for their basic health care needs. Opsomming In Suid-Afrika is 70% van die land se bevolking van die openbare gesondheidsorgsektor (veral die primêre gesondheidsorgstruktuur) afhanklik vir hulle basiese behoeftes aan gesondheidsorg. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.

scholarly journals Advice to purchasing authorities

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Peter Urwin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
District Health ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Second Year

We are now well into the second year of the separation of purchaser and provider functions in the National Health Service. District health authorities as purchasers of services are required to assess the health care needs of their population (NHS Management Executive, 1991a) and seek professional advice regarding both the need for, and the provision of, services. The NHS Management Executive acknowledges that local clinicians in provider units will continue to make a major contribution to this advice (NHS Management Executive, 1991b).

Projecting Physician Requirements for Child Health Care—1990

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
Beverly C. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Pediatric Residency

In 1976 the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare appointed the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) with the charge to advise the Secretary on five national health planning objectives, including estimates of the numbers of physicians required to meet the health care needs of the nation, recommendations regarding the most appropriate specialty distribution of these physicians, and development of strategies to achieve the recommendations formulated by the committee. GMENAC evaluated projected supply and requirements for all major specialties, including child health care, for 1990, and recommended strategies to bring supply and requirement into reasonable balance. Despite the range of error of the methodology used, these data represent the most detailed scientific study to date on this subject. Pediatrics, the portion of child health care accruing to the pediatrician in 1990 was projected to be in "near balance" for supply/requirement ratio. Inasmuch as GMENAC recommended that larger surpluses be created deliberately in the three primary care fields, it is unlikely that the number of pediatric residency training programs will be decreased. As several hundred pediatric residency positions are unfilled each year, a concomitant decrease in residency offerings in oversupplied fields would be required to accomplish the recommended subspecialty distribution.

scholarly journals Assessing and Ensuring a Comprehensive System of Services for Children With Special Health Care Needs: A Public Health Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie B. Strickland ◽  
Peter C. van Dyck ◽  
Michael D. Kogan ◽  
Cassie Lauver ◽  
Stephen J. Blumberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Special Health Care Needs ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Special Health Care ◽  
Special Health

Both a ‘magic bullet’ and good aim are required to link public health interests and health care needs in HIV infection

10.1038/73104 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.P. Garnett ◽  
L.M. Bartley ◽  
D.W. Cameron ◽  
R.M. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Magic Bullet ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs

scholarly journals Working for psychiatric patients?

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 407-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Peck
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Government ◽  
Surgical Conditions

Working for Patients and the subsequent Working Papers mention psychiatric services explicitly only twice. The proposals have been formulated for patients requiring tests and treatment for elective surgical conditions. They are the conditions which are believed to be predictable and therefore the most receptive to contractual specification and pricing. The health care contract is to be central to the new NHS. It is the device by which the Department of Health hopes to produce a fundamental change in attitude by both doctors and managers. Kenneth Clarke seems much more concerned with this attitudinal shift than with the detail of what the NHS might resemble a decade from now. This omission of overt consideration of psychiatric services does not allow us to ignore the White Paper. I intend to focus on the potential implications of the proposed themes for psychiatric services, particularly in the context of what they might indicate about the Government response to Community Care: Agenda for Action.

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