The East Anglian Regional Health Authority is concerned to base its budgetary decisions on accurate information about the costs of cross-boundary flows in the Region. A patient counts as a cross boundary flow when a resident in one district completes a spell as an in-patient in a hospital in...

Palliative care has been through a difficult development process, but now has the evidence and experience base to make a contribution in the changing health environment. There has now been a great deal of experience with different types of care, and research has shown that patients strongly...

Certain rules have been developed on the minimum increases in public spending needed to cover the costs of aging and the costs of new technology. In practice elderly people only use certain kinds of service and much of the increase has had to be used to finance changes in other services. From...

The most well established antithrombotic treatment for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is unfractionated heparin (UFH) plus aspirin, but such treatment may not prevent arterial thrombotic events. Low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) and platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa inhibitors offer...

Alzheimer's disease is one of several diseases of the elderly that has recently come into prominence for a number of reasons. First, its prevalence is set to increase as a result of the aging of Western populations. Secondly, the use of institutional care has fallen as a result of major policy...