• 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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