Dismantling the NHS? : evaluating the impact of health reforms /

An indepth analysis of the NHS reforms ushered in by UK Coalition Government under the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. Essential reading for those studying the NHS, those who work in it, and those who seek to gain a better understanding of this key public service.

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
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Other Authors: Exworthy, Mark, 1966- (Editor), Mannion, Russell (Editor), Powell, Martin A., 1961- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2016.
Ã2016
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Evaluating the impact of NHS reforms
  • policy, process and power; 2. Orders of change in the ordered changes in the NHS; 3. NHS finances under the Coalition; 4. Did NHS productivity increase under the Coalition government?; 5. The central management of the English NHS; 6. An argument lost by both sides?: The Parliamentary debate over the 2010 NHS White Paper; 7. UK-wide health policy under the Coalition
  • 8. Clinically led commissioning: past, present and future?; 9. 'Much ado about nothing'?: Pursuing the 'holy grail' of health and social care integration under the Coalition; 10. Public health: unchained or shackled?; 11. Provider plurality and supply-side reform; 12. Achieving equity in health service commissioning; 13. Setting the workers free?: Managers in the (once again) reformed NHS; 14. Health and Wellbeing Boards: The new system stewards?; 15. Blowin' in the wind: The involvement of people who use services, carers and the public in health and social care; 16. 'Goundhog Day': the Coalition government's quality and sagety reforms; 17. A view from abroad: a New Zealand perspective on the English NHS health reforms; 18. Never again?: A retrospective and prospective view of English health reforms.