Health Policy and Management
The Health-care Agenda in a British Political Context
Published on 2. November 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-412-55130-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text provides an analysis of key management issues, drawing on "general" management theory and practice where necessary but basically looking at health service management challenges for the NHS. It should be of interest to faculty and students of MBA, MA and other management development courses for health managers and professionals; NHS policy makers; strategic managers; doctors; nurses; and other disciplines at management levels.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-55130-7 (9780412551307)
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Content
Part 1 Policy issues: health and health care; health care financing - mobilizing the money; priorities and hard choices - towards outcomes: health gain, democracy or both?; the purchaser/provider split and planning - fragmentation or coherence?; devolution and centralism in the NHS - clinical directorates, resource management and other initiatives. Part 2 Management issues: the changing context of general management; commissioning and contracting; the management of human resources and industrial relations; medical and clinical audit - towards quality? Calum Paton and Anne McBride; from resource allocation to resource management - allocating and spending the money. Part 3 Understanding and learning: national health policy and strategic management - agenda for the future; lessons and warnings from abroad - US health policy; the politics and economics of health-care reform - the UK in comparative context.