On 1 July, the National Health Service (NHS), Britain’s healthcare system that deals with the overwhelming majority of UK patients, will start pooling primary care records in England to make them accessible to third parties. This will involve data about…
Category: Healthcare
Sunak’s budget is history’s first virus-proof economic plan
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s first budget, which called for the biggest increase in British public spending for 25 years, is a seminal moment for economic policymakers. The plan for next financial year that he announced in the…
Value challenge for health
The UK Labour Party is banking on health to win back voters. Its members and sympathisers will join the Keep our NHS Public demonstration to parliament on 4 March. But as the by-election in the Cumbrian constituency of Copeland last…
Optimising value and efficiency in healthcare
Expenditure on health is rising as a proportion of GDP everywhere. It takes about 17 per cent of America’s GDP and it is said that, on present trends, 100 per cent of America’s GDP will be spent on healthcare by the…