Reforming Healthcare : : What's the Evidence? / / Ian Greener, Barbara E. Harrington, David J. Hunter, Russell Mannion, Martin Powell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
• VerfasserIn: Greener, Ian,; Harrington, Barbara E.,; Hunter, David J.,; Powell, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The NHS in 1990 -- Reorganising the NHS, 1990–2010 -- ‘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 -- References -- Index