Concerns about the intrusion of economic and financial considerations into patient management have increased in the United Kingdom, largely as a result of the passage of the 1990 National Health Services Act. Based on an agenda set by the British Medical Association, a questionnaire was designed...

This paper describes an experiment to test the construct validity of contingent valuation, by eliciting women's valuations for the NHS cervical cancer screening programme. It is known that, owing to low levels of knowledge of cancer and screening in the general population, women both...