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© 1983 Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom

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The evolution of health services research in Britain*


J. R. Butler
F. A. Boddy

Health Services Research Unit, University of Kent
Social Paediatric and Obstetric Research Unit, University of Glasgow


J. R. Butler, Health Services Research Unit, University of Kent, Canterbury

This paper reviews the history of health services research in England and Wales and in Scotland over the last twenty years. In England, the history has been characterized by the absence of a consistent policy for commissioning and funding health services research, and by the lack of a coherent machinery for enabling government to acquire the research it needs. In Scotland such difficulties have been less apparent, partly because of the smaller scale of the operation and partly because of the different history of communication between the health service and the research community.


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