United Kingdom policy

Alzheimer s disease in the United Kingdom. Burden of disease and future care. Health Policy Review paper 12. Health Policy Unit, Imperial College School of Medicine,... 

Oil spill-treating agents have been a subject of controversy since their introduction during the Torrey Canyon oil spill off the coast of the United Kingdom in 1967. The dispersant policies of several European nations and Canada have been reviewed and compared with those of the United States [433]. 

Each Member State of the European Union operates its own policy regarding the pricing of pharmaceutical products. In the United Kingdom, the primary tool is the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS), which is better described as a profit-regulating scheme. This is dealt with in detail in Chapter 26. 

The precise role of economic evaluation varies among countries. In the vast majority of jurisdictions the role is confined to decisions about pharmaceuticals only, although the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom also considers devices, medical procedures, and public health interventions. Even among those countries considering only pharmaceuticals, there are variations in policy. In some, all new pharmaceuticals are considered, whereas in others only those drugs having a premium price, or likely to have a major impact on the health care system, are evaluated. 

The British policy of interdependence with the United States was not without its disadvantages. As Baylis has pointed out, collaboration with the Americans in targeting made it difficult to pursue an independent strategy of how to employ nuclear forces. The original targeting strategy for the V-bomber force, as presented to the Swinton Committee in 1954, had been to strike at Soviet bomber bases, so as to reduce the scale of the nuclear attack on the United Kingdom (see pp. 319, 320). 

Institute for European Environmental Policy, London, United Kingdom John Fawell... 

The environment in which universities operate has also been modified as a result of other government policies. Attempts to increase the fraction of the population engaged in higher education in the United Kingdom from 25 percent to 40 percent has shifted the focus from research-based universities to... 

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