Nicholas Mays

Publication List Details

Period

1998 - 2008

Number

65

Co-Authors

These include: (2008)

Email Alerting, Qualitative Data, Catherine Pope, Sue Ziebl, Nicholas Mays, Catherine Pope, ...

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Reforming primary health care: is New Zealand's primary health care strategy achieving its early goals? (2008)

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...

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...

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...

Evaluation of total purchasing pilots in England and Scotland and implications for primary care groups in England: personal interviews and analysis of routine data

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...

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?

Evaluation of total purchasing pilots in England and Scotland and implications for primary care groups in England: personal interviews and analysis of routine data

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...

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?

Are New Zealand's new primary health organisations fit for purpose?

Gauld, Robin, Mays, Nicholas

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

A Review of Options for Health and Disability Support Purchasing in New Zealand

Nicholas Mays, Kenneth Hand

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...

Use of Targets to Improve Health System Performance: English NHS Experience and Implications for New Zealand

Nicholas Mays

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...