HEALTH-CARE - INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS

A conference held at the College in July 1994 examined the wide range of health care systems employed around the world and their varying res ponses to the combined pressures of demographic change and increasing patient expectations in the face of anticipated unsustainable increase s in financial demand. The meeting, which was planned by Professor Rog er Williams, was jointly sponsored by the College, the NHS Management Executive, Glaxo Holdings plc, the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and the Kohn Foundation.