The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State
The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State
Integrating Purchasing: Lessons from Experience
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Tragic Choices in Health Care: The Case of Child B
Hunter, in a study of resource allocation in two Scottish health boards in the 1970s, suggests that decisions were influenced by a policy triad, comprising health board members, managers, and professional and lay advisory bodies (Hunter ...
Woods, K. (2004) 'Political Devolution and the Health Services in Great Britain', International Journal of Health Services, 34, 323–39. Yates, J. (1987) Why Are We Waiting? (Oxford University Press). Yates, J. (1995) Private Eye, ...
Rationing or priority setting occurs in all health care systems. Doctors, managers and politicians are involved in making decisions on how to use scarce resources and which groups and patients...
The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State
This revised edition of the widely acclaimed text covers all theoretical approaches to the study of policy making and implementation. The book is essentially a study of the policy process,...
Rationing or priority setting occurs in all health care systems. Doctors, managers, and politicians are involved in making decisions on how to use scarce resources and which groups and patients...
This book manages to synthesise a mass of material in a readable form, and enlightens as well as informs.' Public Health.
Health Policy in Britain: The Politics and Organisation of the National Health Service
Covers Britain's National Health Service: its policy and structure. 'Christopher Ham's book provides an historical and theoretical introduction to the making, implementation and evaluation of health policy in Britain. It...
Systematically updated throughout, the fifth edition of this leading text provides the most up- to-date and comprehensive account available of health policy in the United Kingdom.
This paper argues that the NHS in England cannot meet the health care needs of the population without a sustained and comprehensive commitment to quality improvement as its principal strategy.