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Cumming, Jacqueline, Mays, Nicholas, Gribben, Barry
Abstract Background In 2001, the New Zealand government introduced its Primary Health Care Strategy (PHCS), aimed at strengthening the role of primary health care, in order to improve health and to...
Learning from other countries: an on-call facility for health care policy (2008)
Nolte, Ellen, Ettelt, Stefanie, Thomson, Sarah, Mays, Nicholas
Recognizing that robust information on health systems in other countries can provide valuable lessons for the English National Health Service, the Department of Health commissioned an academic team...
A review of the role and responsibilities of national ministries of health in five countries (2007)
Ettelt, Stefanie, Nolte, Ellen, Thomson, Sarah, Mays, Nicholas
Describing the impact of health research: a Research Impact Framework (2006)
Kuruvilla, Shyama, Mays, Nicholas, Pleasant, Andrew, Walt, Gill
Abstract Background Researchers are increasingly required to describe the impact of their work, e.g. in grant proposals, project reports, press releases and research assessment exercises. Specialised...
Describing the impact of health research: a Research Impact Framework (2006)
Kuruvilla, Shyama, Mays, Nicholas, Pleasant, Andrew, Walt, Gill
Background: Researchers are increasingly required to describe the impact of their work, e.g. in grant proposals, project reports, press releases and research assessment exercises. Specialised impact...
Informing policy making and management in healthcare : the place for synthesis. (2006)
Popay, Jennie, Pope, Catherine, Mays , Nicholas
Research synthesis has an important role supporting the transfer of knowledge between researchers and healthcare decision-makers. But if our goal is to make knowledge more useable and context...
Health care outside hospital: accessing generalist and specialist care in eight countries (2006)
Ettelt, Stefanie, Nolte, Ellen, Mays, Nicholas, Thomson, Sarah
Shyama Kuruvilla, Nicholas Mays, Andrew Pleasant, Gill Walt, Biomed Central, Andrew Pleasant, ...
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Effect of diverging policy across the NHS (2005)
Bevan, Gwyn, Alvarez-Rosete, Arturo, Mays, Nicholas, Dixon, Jennifer
Effect of diverging policy across the NHS (2005)
Bevan, Gwyn, Alvarez-Rosete, Arturo, Mays, Nicholas, Dixon, Jennifer
How can we synthesise qualitative and quantitative evidence for policy makers and managers? (2005)
Pope, Catherine, Mays, Nicholas, Popay, Jennie
Objectives: To describe how different types of evidence - qualitative, quantitative and non-research based - can be integrated/synthesised to inform policy decision making. Study design: Review and...
Goodwin, Nicholas, Mays, Nicholas, McLeod, Hugh, Malbon, Gill, Raftery, James
Objectives: To evaluate the reported achievements of the 52 first wave total purchasing pilot schemes in 1996-7 and the factors associated with these; and to consider the implications of these...
Primary care trusts: Premature reorganisation, with mergers, may be harmful
Walshe, Kieran, Smith, Judith, Dixon, Jennifer, Edwards, Nigel, Hunter, David J, Mays, Nicholas, ...
Effect of diverging policy across the NHS
Alvarez-Rosete, Arturo, Bevan, Gwyn, Mays, Nicholas, Dixon, Jennifer
Practice based commissioning: applying the research evidence
Smith, Judith, Dixon, Jennifer, Mays, Nicholas, McLeod, Hugh, Goodwin, Nick, McClelland, Siobhan, ...
General practitioners are being asked to retake responsibility for commissioning healthcare services. What can we learn from previous experience?
Describing the impact of health research: a Research Impact Framework
Kuruvilla, Shyama, Mays, Nicholas, Pleasant, Andrew, Walt, Gill
Goodwin, Nicholas, Mays, Nicholas, McLeod, Hugh, Malbon, Gill, Raftery, James
Objectives: To evaluate the reported achievements of the 52 first wave total purchasing pilot schemes in 1996-7 and the factors associated with these; and to consider the implications of these...
Primary care trusts: Premature reorganisation, with mergers, may be harmful
Walshe, Kieran, Smith, Judith, Dixon, Jennifer, Edwards, Nigel, Hunter, David J, Mays, Nicholas, ...
Effect of diverging policy across the NHS
Alvarez-Rosete, Arturo, Bevan, Gwyn, Mays, Nicholas, Dixon, Jennifer
Practice based commissioning: applying the research evidence
Smith, Judith, Dixon, Jennifer, Mays, Nicholas, McLeod, Hugh, Goodwin, Nick, McClelland, Siobhan, ...
General practitioners are being asked to retake responsibility for commissioning healthcare services. What can we learn from previous experience?
Describing the impact of health research: a Research Impact Framework
Kuruvilla, Shyama, Mays, Nicholas, Pleasant, Andrew, Walt, Gill
Are New Zealand's new primary health organisations fit for purpose?
Attempts to make New Zealand's health care more equitable have resulted in rapid change. But the reforms are largely untested and their effects difficult to predict
Implementing practice based commissioning
Lewis, Richard Q, Mays, Nicholas, Curry, Natasha, Robertson, Ruth
Is happening slowly but not necessarily surely
A Review of Options for Health and Disability Support Purchasing in New Zealand
The introduction of an internal market into New Zealand's publicly financed health system based on a purchaser-provider separation was highly controversial. From four Regional Health Authorities, the...
Reforming UK health care to improve health
Gwyn Bevan, Alan Maynard, Walter Holland, Nicholas Mays
The current debate about reforming the NHS is surprising in a number of ways. Timmins (1988) points out that it was unforeseen and not part of the Government’s main concerns after winning the...
Investing in Well-being: An Analytical Framework
Veronica Jacobsen, Nicholas Mays, Ron Crawford, Barbara Annesley, Paul Christoffel, Grant Johnston, ...
The NZ Treasury is currently engaged in a project to identify cost-effective interventions to improve outcomes for children and young adults in order to maximise the value of government expenditures...
The setting of quantitative, time-limited ?targets? backed up by institutional and managerial rewards and sanctions has been a notable feature of performance improvement efforts in the National...
Reforming UK health care to improve health
Gwyn Bevan, Alan Maynard, Walter Holland, Nicholas Mays
The current debate about reforming the NHS is surprising in a number of ways. Timmins (1988) points out that it was unforeseen and not part of the Government’s main concerns after winning the...
Informing Policy Making and Management in Healthcare: The Place for Synthesis
Pope, Catherine, Mays, Nicholas, Popay, Jennie
Research synthesis has an important role supporting the transfer of knowledge between researchers and healthcare decision-makers. But if our goal is to make knowledge more useable and context...