GP Contract - The New GP Contract - What It Means To You

GP Contract - The New GP Contract - What It Means To You

Making It Better - A Strategy for Pharmacy in the Community 2004

Making It Better - A Strategy for Pharmacy in the Community 2004

Making it Better - A Strategy for Pharmacy in the Community

Strategy for Pharmacy in the community

Making It Better - A Strategy for Pharmacy in the Community (PDF 233 KB)

A Strategy for Community Pharmacy (Consultation Paper)

Consent - Patient Information Leaflet- Consent - it's up to you (PDF 15 KB)

Consent - Patient Information Leaflet- Consent - it's up to you

Putting It Right

The case for change in Northern Ireland's hospital service

Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too: Can Regulatory Agencies Be Both Independent and Accountable?

Independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) were created in various sectors and on different governmental levels to implement liberalization policies. This paper investigates the link between IRAs' independence, which is said to promote regulatory credibility and the use of technical expertise, and their accountability, which is related to the need for controlling and legitimizing independent regulators. The literature on the regulatory state anticipates a positive relation between the independence and accountability of IRAs, but systematic empirical evidence is still lacking. To tackle this question, this paper measures and compares the independence and the accountability of IRAs in three differentially liberalized sectors in Switzerland (telecommunications, electricity and railways). With the application of Social Network Analysis, this piece of research shows that IRAs can be de facto independent and accountable at the same time, but the two features do not necessarily co-evolve in the same direction.

Does unemployment hurt less if there is more of it around? A panel analysis of life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

This article examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Does the subjective well-being of unemployed people decline less if unemployment is more widespread? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the community lose their job and remain unemployed over an extended period, the psychological cost of being unemployed diminishes and the pressure to accept a new job declines. We analyze this question with individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2010) and the Swiss Household Panel (2000-2010). Our fixed-effects estimates show no evidence for a mitigating effect of high surrounding unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed. Becoming unemployed hurts as much when regional unemployment is high as when it is low. Likewise, the strongly harmful impact of being unemployed on well-being does not wear off over time, nor do repeated episodes of unemployment make it any better. It thus appears doubtful that an unemployment shock becomes persistent because the unemployed become used to, and hence reasonably content with, being without a job.

Ready or not? Let's leave it 'til later

This leaflet details 10 things to think about before having sex.

Passive smoking: there's nothing passive about it

This leaflet highlights the health risks of passive smoking to adults and children, and suggests way of minimising your exposure to second-hand smoke.