Rudolf Klein

The New Politics of the NHS, Seventh Edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This seventh edition remains a clear, easy-to-read guide to often complex debates, encompassing both the background of the evolution of the NHS since its foundation, and a completely up-to-date picture of its present and future. Focuses on topics such as: management, structure, centralisation, funding, economic performance and challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909368019
• Artikelnr.: 57077288

Autorenporträt

Rudolf Klein is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP) at Bath. He is Professorial Fellow of the King's Fund Institute and author of The Politics of the NHS.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. The politics of creation. The emerging
consensus. The curtain goes up. Coalition compromises. Private negotiation
into public controversy. Whose victory was it? References. The politics of
consolidation. Infinite demands, finite means. Whatever is best
administered is best. Centre-periphery relations: the circle refuses to be
squared. The pattern of inequalities. Professional influence and public
power. Agenda for the future. References. The politics of technocratic
change. Growing scarcity in an era of growth. Planning and rationing.
National policy and medical decisions. In search of an organisational fix.
References. The politics of disillusionment. The politics of economic
crisis: the NHS in a new environment. The exploding health care policy
arena. The politics of ideological confrontation: a case study. The
politics of organisational stasis. Back to the drawing board: the consensus
under challenge. References. The politics of value for money. The changing
environment. Political v. financial constraints. The return to
centralisation. The new managerialism. A drift to privatisation?
Controlling the gatekeepers. References. The politics of the big bang. A
dialogue of the deaf. Reviewing the options. An explosion of opposition.
General practitioners on the rampage. Implementation as learning. New
themes in the health policy arena. A new hierarchy of command. The
Conservative legacy. References. The politics of The Third Way. The Third
Way. New Labour in office. Strategy for the NHS. Regulating the medical
profession. Resources, rationing and crisis. Commanding but not
controlling? References. The politics of reinvention. Economic success,
political victory. The great transformation. Present needs, future demands.
Managing the performance of the NHS. The implementation gap. Enter the
regulators. Changing the money flows. Balancing voice and choice. The
private sector to the rescue. The State and the profession. Reorganising
yet again. Beyond the Department of Health. The Blair legacy. References.
The politics of transition. Interpreting the Brown oracle. A pandemic of
visions. Towards the fiscal ice age? A new management and a new agenda. The
NHS and the people. Scarcity among plenty. Dropped bedpans - yet again.
Performance, perceptions and expectations. Conflict within consensus - yet
again. References. The politics of confrontation. From church to garage.
Policy making in an international context. The future: unfinished business.
References. Index.