Healthcare in the UK: Understanding continuity and change
Ian Greener
Abstract
The National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing a period of significant reform, with the reintroduction of the internal market, a focus on patient choice and the controversial introduction of ‘foundation hospitals’ — all central to New Labour's strategy for changing healthcare in the UK. This book contends that attempts to reform the NHS can only be understood by reference to both the wider social and political contexts, and to the organisational and ideational legacies present within the NHS itself. It aims to take students beyond a basic understanding of the historical development of health ... More
Keywords: National Health Service, internal market, patient choice, foundation hospitals, New Labour, health policy, organisation, society, organisational change, development of policy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9781861346094 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861346094.001.0001 |
