The objective of this briefing is to summarise concisely the evidence on incentives that encourage providers of health care to follow guidance on best practice, particularly where that guidance requires the use of specific medicines or other health technologies. We define incentives broadly, to...

Waste heat recovery is a key problem for metallurgical slag. The heat source acquisition is current bottleneck for sewage sludge gasification technology. By using the waste heat of slag, granulation and waste heat recovery technology system is proposed. The sludge gasification kinetics were...

There has been long-standing interest in the use of incentives to encourage delivery of high-quality health care services at the lowest feasible cost. Although it is clear that health care professionals have intrinsic incentives to deliver high-quality care to patients, there are significant...

This paper investigates how the increased rate of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payments implemented on 1 April 2005 affects Scottish general practitioners' (GPs) intrinsic, extrinsic and overall motivation. A first difference method is used to model GPs' intrinsic and overall motivation....