- The health unit was set up to facilitate informed and impartial debate among key
stakeholders, patients, and the grassroots of the medical profession, in order to help
build consensus on the future of health care in the UK.
- Our
research aims to bring fresh thinking to problems facing the NHS through careful
analysis and a consideration of what can be learnt from other health systems.
- From this, we endeavour to generate evidence-based ideas that are committed to high-quality, universal, safe and integrated health care, provided by clinicians whose first concern is patients.
Publication: Checking-Up on Doctors: A Review of the Quality and Outcomes Framework for
General Practitioners
- James Gubb and Grace Li, 19 November 2008
While the QOF has delivered benefits in the treatment of conditions included in the
framework, the net benefit is unclear. There is evidence that the financial incentive is
diverting attention away from other conditions and harming the relationship between GPs
and patients.
Event: Homeless health: a blight on this house
- Charles Fraser, Dr Philip Reid, Sir David Varney, Dr Jim O'Connell, 21 April 2009
Briefing: NHS performance: are things getting
better?
- James Gubb, June 2008
After decades of under investment in the UK's health system, has the extra money of the
past eight years worked?
Article: Unintended consequences: what of quality outside the QOF?
- James Gubb, British Journal of General Practice, Volume 59, Number 562, May 2009, pp.e173-e174(1)
There is more to high quality general practice than simply meeting QOF targets.
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