National health services organization

The National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanitd - ISS), The National Institute of Health is another technical-scientiric organ of the National Health Service. It enjoys scientific, organisational, administrative and accounting independence and is subj to monitcmng by the Ministry of Health. It undertakes research, experimental, control and training functions in relation to public he th. 

The organizations that actually pay for medicines — governments, insurers and so on—have only recently started to use the power conferred by their expenditure. A consequence is that a drug company has not only to show that its new product is safe and works, but also that it is cost-effective. In Australia, this has been spelled out in legislation. Since 1993, any drug submitted for approval there must be accompanied not only by the results of clinical trials but also by an economic impact analysis. In 1999 the UK set up a National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) to advise the National Health Service on the cost-effectiveness of health care technologies. Other countries ask formally or informally for pharmacoeconomic analysis. Economic impacts can be measured in a variety of ways, for example, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility or fuU cost-benefit studies. 

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AIIMB also coordinates and cooperates with other Italian and International Technical and general Scientific Organizations and specialized activities in the field of Biomedical and Clinical Engineering within the structures of the National Health Services. 

An example of the application of supply chain management in a not-for-profit organization is the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. 

The public sector and government organizations are engaged in initiatives to improve the performance of their service supply chain and reaching out to the experience of global service providers such UPS, FedEx and DHL. The national institution of National Health Service (NHS) in the UK which is known to be an icon of self-contained healthcare services has formed an outsourcing service supply chain parmership with DHL Logistics. 

The National Health Information Center (NHIC) offers a free referral service to help people find organizations that provide information about isobutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. For more information, see the NHIC s Web site at http//www.health.gov/NHIC/ or contact an information specialist by calling 1-800-336-4797. 

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