A National Health Service?
The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979
Published on 20. March 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 286 pages
978-0-333-57832-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms should be seen not as the inevitable product of technical developments nor as a consensus response to narrowly managerial difficulties within the NHS, but rather as part of a wider political strategy towards state provision of welfare. The book strongly emphasises the uneven geographical impacts of post-1979 changes, a topic usually underplayed by analysts of social policy, and draws heavily on previously unpublished material.
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Edition
1995
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-57832-2 (9780333578322)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
03/1995
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
John Mohan
Content
From Royal Commission to The NHS Reforms: A Review of Policies and Statistics.- Explaining Change in Health Care Policy.- Conservatism, Health Policy and Health Care Policy.- Spatial Resource Allocation: Local Difficulties, Technical Adjustments and Political Solutions.- Imagined and Imaginary Communities: Rhetoric and Reality in Community Care Policy.- Producing Health Care: Management, Labour and the State in the NHS.- Blurring the Boundaries: Health Care outside the NHS.- The Entrepreneurial State: Commercial and Charitable Activities by Health Authorities.- Powers, Responsibilities and Accountability: Organisational Reform and Local Autonomy In What Sense a National Health Service?.- Appendix 1: A Chronology of Major Developments in Health and Health Care Policy since 1979.- Bibliography.