Conflicts in the National Health Service
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-032-25237-7 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the second half of the twentieth century. Now, as then, they offer both historical perspective on contemporary difficulties and invite debate about the future development of health services. The main themes are the medical care system and its organisational structures; the managers and the providers of the system, their tasks and responses; the resources available whether financial, human or material; and finally the consumers and their influence upon the overall direction of the system.
Reviews / Votes
'Overall this book provides a useful window on questions thought to be important by knowledgeable teachers and critics of the NHS...of particular interest are the essays on planning and administration at the local level...' Rosemary Stevens, Tulane University, USA.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
302 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-25237-7 (9781032252377)
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Keith Barnard | Kenneth Lee
Conflicts in the National Health Service
Book
05/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
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Keith Barnard | Kenneth Lee
Conflicts in the National Health Service
E-Book
05/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
€41.99
Available for download
Keith Barnard | Kenneth Lee
Conflicts in the National Health Service
E-Book
05/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
€41.99
Available for download
Persons
Keith Barnard was Deputy Director and Lecturer in Health Planning at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Kenneth Lee was Lecturer in Health Economics at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
Content
1. Promises, Patients and Politics: The Conflicts of the NHS 2. Medical Autonomy: Challenge and Response 3. Access and Efficiency in Medical Care: A Consideration of Accident and Emergency Services 4. Patients: Receivers or Participants? 5. Power, Patients and Pluralism 6. Participation or Control? The Workers' Involvement in Management 7. Health Administration and the Jaundice of Reorganisation 8. Making Reorganisation Work: Challenges and Dilemmas in the Development of Community Medicine 9. Planning, Uncertainty and Judgement: The Case of Population 10. Public Expenditures, Planning and Local Democracy.