Reforming healthcare: What's the evidence?
Ian Greener, Barbara E. Harrington, David J. Hunter, Russell Mannion, and Martin Powell
Abstract
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 re ... More
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.
Keywords:
NHS,
healthcare reform,
market-based,
internal market,
reorganisation,
students,
academics,
social policy,
public management,
health policy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447307112 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2015 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447307112.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Ian Greener, author
Durham University
Barbara E. Harrington, author
Northumbria University
David J. Hunter, author
Durham University
Russell Mannion, author
University of Birmingham
Martin Powell, author
University of Birmingham
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