Conflicts in the National Health Service

Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the second half of the twentieth century. Now, as then, they offer both historical perspective on contemporary difficulties and invite debate about the future development of health services.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Promises, Patients and Politics: The Conflicts of the NHS 2. Medical Autonomy: Challenge and Response 3. Access and Efficiency in Medical Care: A Consideration of Accident and Emergency Services 4. Patients: Receivers or Participants? 5. Power, Patients and Pluralism 6. Participation or Control? The Workers’ Involvement in Management 7. Health Administration and the Jaundice of Reorganisation 8. Making Reorganisation Work: Challenges and Dilemmas in the Development of Community Medicine 9. Planning, Uncertainty and Judgement: The Case of Population 10. Public Expenditures, Planning and Local Democracy.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Keith Barnard was Deputy Director and Lecturer in Health Planning at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Kenneth Lee was Lecturer in Health Economics at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the second half of the twentieth century. Now, as then, they offer both historical perspective on contemporary difficulties and invite debate about the future development of health services.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Keith Lee Barnard
• Mitarbeit: Keith Barnard (Herausgeber), Barnard Keith (Herausgeber), Kenneth Lee (Herausgeber), Lee Kenneth (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032252377
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225237-7
• Seiten: 250
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie; Sociology, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Illness & addiction: social aspects, History of Medicine, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects