Refereed Articles
1. Majeed FA, Stuart JM, Cartwright KAV, Room R, Gilkes JR, Smith MC, Watson BE.
An outbreak of hepatitis A in Gloucester, UK.
Epidemiology and Infection 1992; 109: 167-173.
2. Stuart JM, Majeed FA, Cartwright KAV, Room R, Parry JV, Perry KR, Begg NT.
Salivary antibody testing in a school outbreak of hepatitis A.
Epidemiology and Infection 1992; 109: 161-166.
3. Majeed FA, Turner HJ, Stuart JM, Cooper RDO, Laite PA.
Audit of near patient cholesterol testing in occupational health clinics.
Occupational Medicine 1993; 43: 23-26.
4. Majeed FA, Burgess NA.
Trends in death rates and registration rates for prostate cancer in England and Wales.
British Journal of Urology 1994; 73: 377-381.
5. Majeed FA, Cook DG, Anderson HR, Hilton S, Bunn S, Stones C.
Using patient and general practice characteristics to explain variations in cervical smear uptake
rates.
British Medical Journal 1994; 308: 1272-1276.
6. Majeed FA, Chaturvedi N, Reading R, Ben-Schlomo Y.
Monitoring and promoting equity in primary and secondary care.
British Medical Journal 1994; 308: 1426-1429.
7. Aylin P, Majeed FA.
The killing season - fact or fiction?
British Medical Journal 1994; 309: 1690.
8. Majeed A, Pollock A.
Contract data.
Health Service Journal 1995; 105: 28-29 (16 March 1995).
9. Majeed FA, Cook DG, Poloniecki J, Griffiths J, Stones C.
Socio-demographic variables for general practices: use of census data.
British Medical Journal 1995; 310: 1373-1374.
10. Majeed FA, Cook DG, Poloniecki J, Martin D.
Using data from the 1991 census.
British Medical Journal 1995; 310: 1511-1514.
11. Majeed FA, Cook DG, Hilton S, Poloniecki J, Hagen A.
Night visiting rates in 129 general practices in one family health services authority: association with
patient and practice characteristics.
British Journal of General Practice 1995; 45: 531-535.
12. Majeed FA, Cook DG, Given-Wilson R, Vecchi P, Poloniecki J.
Do general practitioners influence the uptake of breast cancer screening?
Journal of Medical Screening 1995; 2: 119-124.
13. Majeed FA, Cook DG.
Age and sex differences in the management of ischaemic heart disease.
Public Health 1996; 110: 7-12.
14. Aylin P, Majeed FA, Cook DG.
Home visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales.
British Medical Journal 1996; 313: 207-210.
15. Majeed FA, Crayford T, Martin D.
Deprivation payments to general practitioners.
British Medical Journal 1996; 669-670.
16. Majeed FA, Cook DG, Evans N.
Variations in general practice prescribing costs: implications for setting and monitoring prescribing
budgets.
Health Trends 1996; 28: 52-55.
17. Majeed A, Given-Wilson R, Smith E.
The impact of follow up letters on non-attenders for breast screening: a general practice based
study.
Journal of Medical Screening 1997; 4: 19-20.
18. Pollock AM, Dunnigan M, Gaffney D, Macfarlane A, Majeed FA.
What happens when the private sector plans hospital services for the NHS: three case studies
under the private finance initiative.
British Medical Journal 1997; 314: 1266-1271.
19. Majeed A, Evans N, Head P.
What can PACT tell us about prescribing in general practice?
British Medical Journal 1997; 315: 1515-1519.
20. Majeed A, Head S.
Setting and monitoring prescribing budgets in general practice.
British Medical Journal 1998; 316: 748-750.
21. Kirby L, Lehmann P, Majeed A.
Dementia in people aged 65 years and older: a growing problem?
Population Trends 1998; 92: 23-28.
22. Majeed A, Lehmann P, Kirby L, Coleman M.
Death rates from dementias and neurodegenerative disorders in England and Wales, 1979-1996.
British Medical Journal 1998; 317: 320-321.
23. Majeed A.
Hospital admissions data: why are they collected?
Clinician in Management 1998; 7: 160-166.
24. De Lusignan S, Brown A, Majeed A.
Recent developments in general practice computing.
Clinician in Management 1998; 7: 148-154.
25. Majeed A, Moser K.
Prescribing for asthma by general practitioners in England and Wales 1994-1996.
Health Statistics Quarterly 1999; 1: 16-20.
26. Saxena S, Majeed A, Jones M.
Socio-economic differences in childhood consultation rates in general practice in England and
Wales: Prospective cohort study.
British Medical Journal 1999; 318: 642-646.
27. Majeed A, Malcolm L.
Unified budgets for primary care groups.
British Medical Journal 1999; 318: 772-6.
28. Moser K, Majeed A.
Prevalence of treated chronic diseases in general practice in England and Wales; trends over time
and variations by the ONS area classification.
Health Statistics Quarterly 1999; 2: 25-32.
29. Majeed A.
Adapting routine information systems to meet the needs of primary care groups.
Public Health Medicine 1999; 1: 4-11.
30. Thiru K, Gray J, Majeed A.
Management of ischaemic heart disease in primary care: towards better practice.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 1999; 21: 179-184.
31. McNiece R, Majeed A.
Socio-economic differences in general practice consultation rates among people aged 65 years and
over: prospective cohort study.
British Medical Journal 1999; 319: 26-28.
32. Reid F, Cook DG, Majeed FA.
Explaining the variation in general practice admission rates: cross-sectional study.
British Medical Journal 1999; 319: 98-103.
33. Majeed A, Moser K.
Age and sex specific antibiotic prescribing patterns in general practice in England and Wales in
1996.
British Journal of General Practice 1999; 49: 735-736.
34. Majeed A, Moser K.
Management of heart failure in general practice in England and Wales in 1996.
Health Statistics Quarterly 1999; 4: 5-8.
35. Majeed A, Ferguson J, Field J.
Prescribing of beta-2 agonists and inhaled steroids in England: trends between 1992-1998 and
association with material deprivation, chronic illness and asthma mortality rates.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 1999; 21: 395-400.
36. Majeed A, Lehmann P, Kirby L, Knight R, Coleman M.
Extent of misclassification of death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in England 1979-96:
retrospective examination of clinical records.
British Medical Journal 2000; 320: 145-147.
37. de Lusignan S, Thiru K, Meredith K, Majeed A.
Measuring blood pressure at the wrist: more comfortable for patients and more convenient for
doctors?
Public Health 2000; 114: 161-164.
38. Lehmann P, Majeed A, Hoyert D.
Death rates from dementias and neurodegenerative disorders in England & Wales and the USA,
1993 – 1997.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2000; 6: 26-31.
39. Majeed A, Babb P, Jones J, Quinn M.
Trends in prostate cancer incidence, mortality and survival in England and Wales, 1971-1998.
British Journal of Urology 2000; 85: 1058-1062.
40. Atcha Z, Majeed A.
Paracetamol related deaths in England and Wales, 1993-1997
Health Statistics Quarterly 2000; 7: 5-9.
41. Balasegaram S, Majeed A, Fitz-Clarence H.
Trends in hospital admissions for fractures in England, 1989-90 to 1997-98.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2000; 7: 10-17.
42. Gray J, Majeed A, Kerry S, Rowlands G.
Using computerised medical records to identify patients with ischaemic heart disease in general
practice.
British Medical Journal 2000; 321: 548-50.
43. Majeed A, Moser K, Maxwell R.
Age, sex and practice variations in the use of statins in general practice in England and Wales.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2000; 22: 275-279.
44. Majeed A, Bardsley M, Morgan D, O'Sullivan C, Bindman A.
Cross-sectional study of primary care groups in London: measures of socio-economic and health
status, and association with hospital admission rates.
British Medical Journal 2000; 321: 1057-1060.
45. Shah R, McNiece R, Majeed A.
Socio-economic differences in psychiatric consultation rates among people aged 65 years and
over.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2001; 16: 57-63.
46. Martin RM, Sterne JAC, Mangtani P, Majeed A.
Social and economic variation in general practice consultation rates amongst men aged 16-39.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2001; 9: 29-36.
47. Carroll K, Majeed A.
Trends in mortality and hospital admissions associated with atrial fibrillation in England and Wales.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2001; 9: 37-44.
48. Power DA, Brown RSD, Brock CS, Payne HA, Majeed A, Babb P.
Trends in testicular carcinoma in England and Wales, 1971-1999.
British Journal of Urology 2001; 87: 361-365.
49. Balasegaram S, Majeed A, Fitz-Clarence H.
Trends in hospital admissions for fractures of the femur in England, 1989/90 to 1997/98.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2001; 23: 11-17.
50. Crowcroft N, Majeed A.
Improving the certification of death and the usefulness of routine mortality statistics.
Clinical Medicine JRCPL 2001; 1: 122-125.
51. de Lusignan S, Thiru K, Majeed A.
Use of computer systems in a primary care research network; implications for
the NHS Information Strategy.
Clinician in Management 2001; 10: 32-37.
52. Bindman AB, Weiner J, Majeed A.
The United Kingdom’s Primary Care Groups: An Integrated Structure for Quality Improvement and
Community-Based Accountability.
Health Affairs 2001; 20: 132-145.
53. Majeed A, Moser K, Carroll K.
Trends in the prevalence and management of atrial fibrillation in general practice in England and
Wales 1994-98: analysis of data from the General Practice Research Database.
Heart 2001, 86: 284-288.
54. Shah R, McNiece R, Majeed A.
Socio-demographic differences in general practice consultation rates for psychiatric disorders
among patients aged 16-64.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2001; 11: 5-10.
55. Ellis C, Gnani S, Majeed A.
Prevalence and management of heart failure in general practice in England and Wales, 1994-1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2001; 11: 17-24.
56. Shah R, Uren Z, Baker A, Majeed A.
Trends in deaths from drug overdose and poisoning in England and Wales 1993-1998.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2001; 23: 242-246.
57. Majeed A, Bindman AB, Weiner JP.
Use of risk adjustment in budget setting and performance measurement in primary care. Paper I.
How it works.
British Medical Journal 2001; 323: 604-607.
58. Majeed A, Bindman AB, Weiner JP.
Use of risk adjustment in budget setting and performance measurement in primary care: Paper II.
Advantages, disadvantages, practicalities.
British Medical Journal 2001; 323: 607-610.
59. Shah R, Uren Z, Baker A, Majeed A.
Deaths from antidepressants in England and Wales 1993-97: analysis of a new national database.
Psychological Medicine 2001; 31: 1203-1210.
60. Carroll K, Majeed A.
Comorbidity associated with atrial fibrillation.
British Journal of General Practice 2001; 51: 884-891.
61. Carroll K, Murad S, Eliahoo J, Majeed A.
Stroke incidence and risk factors in a population-based prospective cohort study.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2001; 12: 18-26.
62. Gnani S, Ellis C, Majeed A.
Co-existing conditions and utilisation of health services associated with heart failure: general
practice based study.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2001; 12: 27-33.
63. Ryan R, Majeed A.
Prevalence of ischaemic heart disease and its management with statins and aspirin in general
practice in England and Wales, 1994-1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2001; 12: 34-39.
64. Gnani S, Ellis C, Majeed A.
Trends in hospital admissions for heart failure in England, 1989-2000.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 13: 16-21.
65. Majeed A, Eliahoo J, Bardsley M, Morgan D, Bindman AB.
Variation in coronary artery bypass grafting, angioplasty, cataract surgery, and hip replacement
rates among primary care groups in London.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2002; 24: 21-26.
66. Higham J, Kang JY, Majeed A.
Recent trends in admissions and mortality due to peptic ulcer in England: Increasing frequency of
haemorrhage among older people.
Gut 2002; 50: 460-464.
67. Shah R, Uren Z, Baker A, Majeed A.
Trends in suicide from drug overdose in the elderly in England and Wales, 1993-1999
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2002; 17: 416-421.
68. Ashworth M, Golding S, Shephard L, Majeed A.
Prescribing incentive schemes in two regions: cross-sectional survey.
British Medical Journal 2002; 324: 1127-1128.
69. Soomro M, Burns T, Majeed A.
Socio-economic deprivation and psychiatric referral and admission rates – an ecological study in
one London borough.
Psychiatric Bulletin 2002; 26: 175-178.
70. Majeed A.
Systematic application of capitation formulas in primary care: Any economic benefits?
Disease Management & Health Outcomes 2002; 10: 215-220.
71. Newnham A, Ryan R, Khunti K, Majeed A.
Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes mellitus in general practice in England and Wales, 1994 to 1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 14: 5-13.
72. Wrigley T, Tinto A, Majeed A.
Age and sex specific antibiotic prescribing patterns in general practice in England and Wales, 1994
to 1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 14: 14-20.
73. Ashworth M, Golding S, Majeed A.
Prescribing indicators and their use by Primary Care Groups to influence prescribing.
Journal of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 27: 197-204.
74. Kang JY, Tinto A, Higham J, Majeed A.
Peptic ulceration in general practice in England and Wales 1994-98: period prevalence and drug
management.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 16: 1067-1074.
75. De Lusignan S, Stephens PN, Adal N, Majeed A.
Does feedback improve the quality of computerised medical records in primary care?
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2002; 9: 395-401.
76. Forrest C, Majeed A, Weiner JP, Carroll K, Bindman AB.
Primary care physicians’ specialty referral rates in the United Kingdom versus the United States.
British Medical Journal 2002; 325: 370-371.
77. Gaitatzis A, Purcell B, Carroll K, Sander JWAS, Majeed A.
Differences in the use of health services among people with and without epilepsy in the United
Kingdom: socio-economic and disease-specific determinants.
Epilepsy Research 2002; 50: 233-241.
78. Purcell B, Gaitatzis A, Sander L, Majeed A.
Epilepsy prevalence and prescribing patterns in England and Wales.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 15: 23-30.
79. Saxena S, Eliahoo J, Majeed A.
Socio-economic and ethnic variations in health status and use of health services among children:
cross-sectional survey.
British Medical Journal 2002; 325: 520-523.
80. Godden S, Majeed A, Pollock A, Bindman AB.
How are primary care groups approaching clinical governance? A review of clinical governance
plans from primary care groups in London.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2002; 24: 165-169.
81. Bailey K, Ellis C, Majeed A.
Trends in the treatment of osteoporosis and types of drug treatments prescribed in general practice
in England and Wales, 1994 to 1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 16: 5-13.
82. Ryan R, Majeed A.
Prevalence of treated hypertension in general practice in England and Wales, 1994 to 1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 16: 14-18.
83. Lloyd DAJ, Kang JY, Kumar D, Maxwell JD, Ellis C, Tinto A, Majeed A.
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: divergent trends in hospital admission rates 1989/90 to
1999/2000.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 16: 14-18.
84. Tinto A, Lloyd DAJ, Kang JY, Majeed A, Ellis C, Williamson RCN, Maxwell JF.
Acute and chronic pancreatitis - diseases on the rise: a study of hospital admissions in England
1989/90-1999/2000.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 16: 20972105.
85. Majeed A.
Ten ways to improve information technology in the NHS.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 202-204.
86. Majeed A, Gray J, Ambler G, Carroll K, Bindman AB.
Association between practice size, volume of cases and quality of care of patients with ischaemic
heart disease: cross-sectional study.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326; 371-372.
87. Carroll K, Majeed A, Firth C, Gray J.
Prevalence and management of coronary heart disease in primary care: population-based crosssectional study using a disease register.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2003; 25: 29-35.
88. Hoare J, Bruce M, Majeed A.
Prevalence of treated asthma and its management in general practice in England and Wales, 19941998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2003; 17: 15-22.
89. Forrest CB, Majeed A, Weiner JP, Carroll K, Bindman AB.
Referral of children to specialists in the United States and United Kingdom.
Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine 2003; 157: 279-285.
90. Bindman AB, Majeed A.
Primary care in the United States.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 631-634.
91. Newnham A, Quinn MJ, Babb P, Kang JY, Majeed A.
Trends in oesophageal and gastric cancer incidence, mortality and survival in England and Wales
1971–1998/1999.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2003; 17: 655-664.
92. Newnham A, Quinn MJ, Babb P, Kang JY, Majeed A.
Trends in the subsite and morphology of oesophageal and gastric cancer in England and Wales
1971–1998
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 17: 665-676.
93. Bindman AB, Majeed A.
Primary care in the United States.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 631-634.
94. Goldfield N, Gnani S, Majeed A.
Profiling performance in primary care in the USA.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 744-777.
95. Gray J, Orr D, Majeed A.
Use of Read codes in diabetes management in a South London primary care group: implications for
the production of disease registers in primary care.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 1130-1132.
96. Ashworth M, Lea R, Gray H, Gravelle H, Majeed A.
The development of prescribing incentive schemes in primary care: a longitudinal survey.
British Journal of General Practice 2003; 53: 468-470.
97. Kang JY, Hoare J, Tinto A, Subramanian S, Ellis C, Majeed A, Melville D, Maxwell JD.
Diverticular disease of the colon - on the rise: a study of hospital admissions in England between
1989/1990 and 1999/2000.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2003; 17: 1189-1195.
98. Gray J, Ekins M, Scammell A, Carroll K, Majeed A.
Workload implications of identifying patients with ischaemic heart disease in primary care:
population-based study.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2003; 25: 223-227.
99. Majeed A.
Universal health coverage in the United Kingdom.
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 2003; 26: 373-377.
100. Kang JY, Hoare J, Majeed A, Williamson RCN, Maxwell JD.
Decline in admission rates for acute appendicitis in England.
British Journal of Surgery 2003; 90: 1586-1592.
101. Saxena S, Ambler G, Cole T, Majeed A.
Ethnic group differences in overweight and obese children and young people in England: crosssectional survey.
Archives of Diseases in Childhood 2004; 89: 30-36.
102. Majeed A.
Sources, uses, strengths and limitations of data collected in primary care in England.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2004; 21: 5-14.
103. Bruce M, Griffiths C, Brock A, Majeed A.
Trends in mortality and hospital admissions associated with epilepsy in England and Wales
during the 1990s.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2004; 21: 23-29.
104. de Lusignan S, Hague N, Brown A, Majeed A.
An educational intervention to improve data recording in the management of ischaemic heart
disease in primary care.
Journal of Public Health 2004; 26: 34-37.
105. Gnani S, Gray J, Khunti K, Majeed A.
Managing heart failure in primary care: first steps in implementing the National Service
Framework.
Journal of Public Health 2004; 26: 42-47.
106. Ashworth M, Lea R, Gray H, Rowlands G, Gravelle H, Majeed A.
How are primary care organisations using financial incentives to
influence prescribing?
Journal of Public Health 2004; 26: 48-51.
Other Publications
1. Majeed A.
Consumer issues in the finance and accountability of primary care groups and trusts.
A report to the National Consumer Council (46 pages).
St. George’s Hospital Medical School, 1998.
2. Majeed A, Lehmann P, Kirby L, Knight R, Coleman M.
A retrospective study to determine the extent of misclassification of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in
England, 1979-1996.
A report to the Department of Health (27 pages).
Office for National Statistics, 1999.
3. Majeed A.
Developing the uses of primary care data.
A report to the Department of Health (115 pages).
University College London, 2001.
Editorials & Commentaries
1. Pollock AM, Majeed FA.
Community oriented primary care.
British Medical Journal 1995; 310: 481-482.
2. Majeed FA, Voss S.
Performance indicators for general practice.
British Medical Journal 1995; 311: 209-210.
3. Majeed A.
The basis of a more rational method of funding primary medical care?
British Medical Journal 1996; 312: 1012-1013.
4. Majeed A.
Allocating budgets for fundholding and prescribing.
British Medical Journal 1996; 313: 1274-1275.
5. Majeed A, Harris T.
Acute otitis media in children.
British Medical Journal 1997; 315: 321-322.
6. Majeed A.
Equity in the allocation of resources to general practices will be difficult to achieve.
British Medical Journal 1998; 316: 43.
7. Majeed A.
Meeting the information and budgetary requirements of primary care groups.
British Medical Journal 1999; 318: 169-70.
8. Majeed A.
A new formula for allocating general practice prescribing budgets in England.
British Medical Journal 2000; 320: 266.
9. Majeed A.
Referral of Dr Peter Mansfield to the GMC.
British Medical Journal 2001; 323: 356.
10. Majeed A, Bindman AB.
What can primary care in the USA learn from the UK.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 799.
11. Majeed A.
UK Primary Care Database Research Group.
Informatics in Primary Care 2003; 11: 177-178.
Book Chapters
1. Majeed A.
Information for a primary care led service. In Littlejohns P, Victor C. Making sense of a primary care
led NHS. Radcliffe Medical Press: Oxford, 1996: 44-54.
2. Majeed A.
Using PACT to audit the prescribing of products for stoma care. National Association of
Fundholding Practices 1998 Yearbook. NAFP: London, 1998.
3. Majeed A, Kaur B.
The changing nature of asthma. In Levy M, Hilton S. Asthma in Practice. Royal College of General
Practitioners: London, 1999.
4. Macfarlane A, Majeed A, Vickers N, Atkinson P, Watson J.
Matters of life, death and illness: births, congenital anomalies, deaths, cancer and communicable
diseases. In: Kerrison S, Macfarlane A, editors. Official health statistics: an unofficial guide.
London: Arnold; 2000. p.39-77