Is England Always Behind the USA?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-669
Author(s):  
Ronald MacKeith
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
National Health ◽  
School Children ◽  
Preventive Service ◽  
English Reader ◽  
The Usa

I would answer Dr. Cone's note (Pediatrics, 47:769, 1971) by telling him that at least one English reader thinks the National Health Service (1948) brought medical care to all children, with every part of the country having specialist pediatricians available for seeing children referred by their general practitioners and a universal preventive service for infants, preschool, and school children, without division into indigent and nonindigent, and that England is not now always behind the U.S.A. in all aspects of child care.

scholarly journals The BBC’s Children in Need Telethon: The Currencies of Compassion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lury
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Close Textual Analysis

This chapter illustrates how the BBC’s Children in Need telethon is informed and legitimated by different currency models as part of its aesthetic strategy. It demonstrates how these televisual currencies may be directly aligned with other kinds of medical currency models emerging within the economy of the UK’s National Health Service. Through close textual analysis of the programme and a related analysis of medical currency models proposed and piloted in relation to the NHS, it is argued that the ‘aestheticization’ of currency models provided by the programme reflects an ideological shift in the representation of medical care on public service television, in line with the ideology of neoliberalism and the incremental colonization of ‘financialization’ into all aspects of contemporary society.

Developing GP Monitoring Systems Guided by a Soft Systems Approach

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Hindle
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
National Health ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Soft Systems Methodology ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Contract Management ◽  
Systems Methodology ◽  
Soft Systems

This paper describes a selected aspect of a research project concerned with ‘contracts and competition’ in the recently reformed National Health Service. The particular feature highlighted in this paper is the central role played by the general practitioners in the health service as principal sources of the demands made on provider units (particularly hospitals) and, hence, critical determinants of volumes and costs in contracting. A practical outcome of the research has been the development of GP monitoring systems to be used by provider units particularly in the context of marketing-led referral expectations. The approach used to highlight areas of potential GP contract management and monitoring improvements has been a development of soft systems methodology.

“Nutrition in the Promotion of your Health” Pride, Prejudice and Propaganda

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Walter Yellowlees
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Organic Movement

The association between the organic movement and ‘alternative medicine’ may have been one reason for the failure of the McCarrison Society in Britain to appeal to many National Health Service doctors and dentists. This is unfortunate because the aims of the McCarrison Society have nothing to do with any system of medical care. Our hope is to prevent disease by promoting McCarrison's teaching that man is perfectly adapted to his food supply as it occurs in nature and that the greatest single cause of the diseases of industrial peoples is their dependence on foods made worthless or harmful by processing and refining. This teaching applies to the modern epidemic of coronary heart disease. The evidence incriminating natural unprocessed fat as a cause of this disease is unconvincing.

Strikes by Physicians in Public Hospitals in India

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUNIL K. PANDYA
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Tertiary Healthcare ◽  
The Subject

Can strikes by resident doctors training to become consultants in Indian public-sector teaching hospitals be ethical? These hospitals were established for the medical care of the very poor in a country where health insurance and a national health service are nonexistent. In such a situation, the paralysis of tertiary healthcare centers by striking doctors runs contrary to the raison d'être of the profession. It also violates the first dictum of medicine: Primum, non nocere. And although there is some discussion in the Western literature on strikes by doctors, authorities in India are silent on the subject.

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