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Dismantling the NHS?: Evaluating the Impact of Health Reforms

Mark Exworthy, Russell Mannion, and Martin Powell

Abstract

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the NHS reforms ushered in by UK Coalition Government under the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, arguably the most extensive reforms ever introduced in the NHS. Contributions from leading researchers from the UK, the US and New Zealand examine the reforms in the contexts of national health policy, commissioning and service provision, governance and others. Collectively, the chapters presents a broader assessment of the trajectory of health reforms in the context of marketisation, the rise of health consumerism and the revelation of medical scandals. T ... More

Keywords: NHS, Health and Social Care Act, coalition government, health policy, health reforms

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9781447330226
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2017 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447330226.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Mark Exworthy, editor
University of Birmingham

Russell Mannion, editor

Martin Powell, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

List of tables, figures and boxes

Glossary

Notes on contributors

Foreword

Section A: Health reforms in context

One Evaluating the impact of NHS reforms – policy, process and power

Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion

Two Orders of change in the ordered changes in the NHS

Martin Powell

Section B: National health policy

Three NHS finances under the Coalition

Anita Charlesworth, Adam Roberts and Sarah Lafond

Four Did NHS productivity increase under the Coalition government?

Chris Bojke, Adriana Castelli, Katja Grašič, Daniel Howdon and Andrew Street

Five The central management of the English NHS

Scott L Greer, David Rowland and Holly Jarman

Six An argument lost by both sides? The Parliamentary debate over the 2010 NHS White Paper

Ian Greener

Seven UK-wide health policy under the Coalition

David Hughes

Section C: Commissioning and service provision

Eight Clinically led commissioning: past, present and future?

Kath Checkland, Anna Coleman, Imelda McDermott and Stephen Peckham

Nine ‘Much ado about nothing’? Pursuing the ‘holy grail’ of health and social care integration under the Coalition

Robin Miller and Jon Glasby

Ten Public health: unchained or shackled?

David J Hunter

Eleven Provider plurality and supply-side reform

Rod Sheaff and Pauline Allen

Twelve Achieving equity in health service commissioning

Martin Wenzl and Elias Mossialos

Section D: Governance

Thirteen Setting the workers free? Managers in the (once again) reformed NHS

Paula Hyde and Mark Exworthy

Fourteen Health and Wellbeing Boards: The new system stewards?

Anna Coleman, Surindar Dhesi and Stephen Peckham

Fifteen Blowin’ in the wind: The involvement of people who use services, carers and the public in health and social care

Karen Newbigging

Sixteen ‘Groundhog Day’: the Coalition government’s quality and safety reforms

Martin Powell and Russell Mannion

Seventeen A view from abroad: a New Zealand perspective on the English NHS health reforms

Robin Gauld

Section E: Conclusions

Eighteen Never again? A retrospective and prospective view of English health reforms

Martin Powell and Mark Exworthy

End Matter

Index