All Outputs (61)

Evaluating the impact of patient and public involvement initiatives on UK health services: A systematic review (2007)
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This article reports on a systematic review of the patient and public involvement (PPI) literature in the UK that was undertaken in 2005 to support an evaluation of the Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS) in England.The general PPI literature... Read More about Evaluating the impact of patient and public involvement initiatives on UK health services: A systematic review.

Guest editorial: UKPHA mini symposium (2006)
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'We do not use the word "crisis" lightly...': Sexual health policy in the United Kingdom (2006)
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, health professionals, the media and politicians identified 'sexual health' as a policy problem in the UK. Despite publication in 2001 of a National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV for England, in 2003 the H... Read More about 'We do not use the word "crisis" lightly...': Sexual health policy in the United Kingdom.

Public health leadership in the real world: The role of the director of public health (2006)
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Shifting the balance of power?: UK public health policy and capacity building (2004)
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A new Labour government was elected in the UK in May 1997 with a strongly stated commitment to improving public health and tackling inequalities. This focus on public health was part of a concerted attempt to tackle poverty and social exclusion throu... Read More about Shifting the balance of power?: UK public health policy and capacity building.

'Taking public health out of the ghetto': The policy and practice of multi-disciplinary public health in the United Kingdom (2003)
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Until recently, a medical qualification was required for senior public health posts in the UK National Health Service. Since 1997, the new Labour government has expressed its intention to take public health 'out of the ghetto' and to develop multi-di... Read More about 'Taking public health out of the ghetto': The policy and practice of multi-disciplinary public health in the United Kingdom.

Developing a multi-disciplinary public health specialist workforce: Training implications of current UK policy (2002)
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The Evaluation of Complex Health Policy: Lessons from the UK Total Purchasing Experiment (2001)
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© 2001, SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi). The last five years have witnessed the increasing use of evaluated pilot programmes as a way of developing health services policy in the UK. Total purchasing was the first major quasi-m... Read More about The Evaluation of Complex Health Policy: Lessons from the UK Total Purchasing Experiment.

Achieving health improvements through interprofessional learning in south west England (2000)
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The NHS Executive South West, part of the Department of Health for England, has developed a programme of action to demonstrate that health improvements can be achieved through interprofessional learning. The NHS Executive South West has funded three... Read More about Achieving health improvements through interprofessional learning in south west England.

Tackling health inequalities through partnership working: Learning from a realistic evaluation (2000)
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UK government health policy now strongly supports local partnership working as a key mechanism for tackling health inequalities. There is, however, still a lack of evidence based operational guidance for the development of local partnerships in tackl... Read More about Tackling health inequalities through partnership working: Learning from a realistic evaluation.

The impact of a quasi-market on sexually transmitted disease services in the UK (1999)
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This article reports the results of a study of the impact of quasi-market reforms on sexually transmitted disease (STD) services in one UK health region. An internal or quasi-market was introduced into UK health care in the 1991 reforms of the Nation... Read More about The impact of a quasi-market on sexually transmitted disease services in the UK.

Measuring outcomes in genitourinary medicine: An introduction (1997)
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Developing quality assurance standards for health promotion practice in the UK (1997)
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A stakeholder analysis of developments at the primary and secondary care interface (1996)
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An interview based approach to seeking user views in genitourinary medicine (1996)
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Objectives: To assess user and potential user views on the appropriateness, nature and quality of genitourinary medicine (GUM) provision in Bristol, UK and to develop a model for ongoing user consultation by GUM providers and purchasers. Design: This... Read More about An interview based approach to seeking user views in genitourinary medicine.

Commissioning genitourinary medicine services: The policy research agenda (1996)
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UK healthcare 2000: Fragmentation or diversity (1995)
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Tackling the "hideous scourge" the creation of the veneral disease treatment centres in early twentieth century Britain
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Tackling the "hideous scourge": the creation of venereal disease treatment centres in early twentieth century Britain
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Power points
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