Studying health care organisations

September 2008 Improving patients’ experience of prostate cancer care 

A research summary that looked at developing valid, reliable and usable measures of patient experience of prostate cancer (Baker et al. 2007)

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March 2007 - Can primary care reform reduce demand on hospital outpatient departments?
A research summary of the evidence for four different approaches to reducing demand for specialist outpatient treatment - transfer of services, relocation of specialists to community settings, liaison between primary care and specialists, and professional behaviour change (Roland et al, 2006).

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March 2007 - Decentralisation: a model to follow in the NHS?
A research summary of a review of the evidence to assess the consequences of policies of decentralisation, centralisation and devolution in the NHS, hopefully to enable practitioners, NHS managers and policy makers to understand better the constraints and opportunities posed by the continual shifts in the balance between decentralisation and centralisation (Peckham et al, 2005).

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