Purpose: To discuss US, EU and UK tax-related issues that sovereign wealth funds should consider when investing in private funds. Design/methodology/approach: Discusses various tax-related structuring, operational, risk-allocation, and economic matters that private funds, sovereign wealth funds...

This paper explores the early implementation of an organizational innovation in the UK National Health Service (NHS) – Treatment Centres (TCs) – designed to dramatically reduce waiting lists for elective care. The paper draws on case studies of 8 TCs (each at varying stages of their...

We present findings from evaluations of two government-funded initiatives exploring the transfer of research evidence into clinical practice -- the PACE Programme (Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness), and the Welsh Clinical Effectiveness Initiative National Demonstration Projects. We...

Pressure to utilize research evidence in decisions about patient care and population health, so-called evidence-based medicine, has swept the health care systems of most industrial countries. In the UK, the attention of policy makers has recently turned from the production of more 'effectiveness...