Background: Levels of measles in England and Wales are at their highest for 18 years and strategies targeting the different groups of parents who don’t vaccinate their children continue to be needed. Decision aids for childhood immunisation decisions appear to be effective in achieving vaccine...

There is concern that the UK general practitioner (GP) workforce has declined relative to the expanding needs of a primary care-led NHS. Much of the debate about possible solutions within the profession and amongst medical workforce planners has focused on the need to raise medical school...

There is evidence that the numbers of diagnostic tests performed in hospital laboratories could be reduced without affecting outcomes to patients, and with significant concommitant reduction in costs. The concentration of testing in centralised laboratories located in larger hospitals, and the...