1. Introduction / Michael Anderson, Anuja Chatterjee, Charles Clift, Elias Mossialos -- 2. The health and economic burden of antimicrobial resistance / Driss Ait Ouakrim, Alessandro Cassini, Michele Cecchini, Diamantis Plachouras --3. Tackling antimicrobial resistance in the community / Sarah...

"A disproportionate impact on health system performance Private health insurance makes a small contribution to spending on health in most countries around the world, but its effect on health system performance can be surprisingly large owing to market failures and weaknesses in public policy....

The current divisions in managing prescribing between primary and secondary care in the UK arise from separate budgetary arrangements. These divisions are neither sensible, organisationally efficient nor cost effective. Transition of patients across the interface of primary and secondary care...

Although economic evaluation in health care has a long-standing tradition in the United Kingdom, very little is known about its impact on decision making, particularly following the introduction of the internal market. Since managed competition appears to be growing in popularity worldwide, the...