J. A. Muir Gray

As the demand for health services rises & the pressure on these services grows, decisions about the use of scarce resources are becoming even more difficult to make & more explicit. This text provides healthcare managers with the knowledge they need.

To ensure the survival of universal healthcare it is essential to adopt the new paradigm of value based healthcare. Simply to continue increasing the quality, safety, and efficiency of the services treating patients is necessary, but not sufficient. We need to optimise value for individuals and populations and reduce waste, where waste is defined by the use of resources that could produce more value for another subgroup of the population. This requires...

A comprehensive, practical, and accessible guide to screening programmes, for public health practitioners and anyone else involved in or with an interest in screening. It covers the concepts and evidence behind screening, how to make sound policy on screening, and how to plan and deliver high quality programmes at affordable cost.