Synopses & Reviews
National Health Service reform continues to be a contentious issue in the UK. Reforming Healthcare offers the first major critical overview of health care reform research in England. Analyzing research from 1990 on, a team of leading UK health-policy academics consider the implications of this research for current debates about health care reorganization both in England and internationally. As the most up-to-date summary of what research reveals as successful in English health care reform, this essential review is aimed at anyone interested in the wide-ranging debates about health reorganization.
Synopsis
NHS reform continues to be a topical yet contentious issue in the UK. Reforming healthcare: What's the evidence? is the first major critical overview of the research published on healthcare reform in England from 1990 onwards by a team of leading UK health policy academics. It explores work considering the Conservative internal market of the 1990s and New Labour's healthcare reorganizations, including its attempts at performance management and the reintroduction of market-based reform from 2004 to 2010. It then considers the implications of this research for current debates about healthcare reorganization in England, and internationally. As the most up-to-date summary of what research says works in English healthcare reform, this essential review is aimed at anyone interested in the wide-ranging debates about health reorganization, but especially students and academics interested in social policy, public management and health policy.
Synopsis
Reforming healthcare: What's the evidence? is the first major critical overview of the research published on healthcare reform in England from 1990 onwards by a team of leading UK health policy academics.
About the Author
Ian Greener is professor of applied social sciences at Durham University.Barbara Harrington is a senior research associate at the Centre for Public Policy at Northumbria University.David Hunter is director and professor of Health Policy and Management at Durham University. Russell Mannion holds the chair in Health Systems at the University of Birmingham.Martin Powell is professor of health and social policy at the University of Birmingham.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The NHS in 1990
Reorganising the NHS, 19902010
'Central control' reorganisation in the NHS in the 2000s
Local dynamic reform in the NHS since 2000
The prospects for NHS reorganisation post-2010
Conclusion