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Covers Britain's National Health Service: its policy and structure.
List of contents
Figures and Tables Preface to the First Edition
•Preface to the Second Edition
•Abbreviations
•Acknowledgments
•Introduction
The Development of Health Services and Health Policy •Public Health Services
•Mothers and Young Children
•Health Insurance
•Hospital Services
•The Establishment of the National Health Service
•The Structure of the National Health Service
•The NHS between 1948 and 1974
•The Reorganisation of the NHS
•The Reorganised National Health Service
•The Griffiths Inquiry into NHS Management
•Conclusion
Contemporary Issues in Health Policy •Health Services Financing
•Private Health Care
•Health and Efficiency
•Resource Allocation in the NHS
•Primary Care, Community Health and Prevention
•Hospital Services
•Services for Elderly People
•Mentally Handicapped People
•Mental Illness
•Maternity and Child Health Services
•Planning and Priorities
•Joint Planning
•Conclusion
The Policy-Making Process in Central Government •What is Policy?
•The Policy Process
•British Central Government
•Parliament
•The Prime Minister and Cabinet
•Ministers and Civil Servants
•Relationships between Departments
•Outside Interest
•Pluralism or Corporatism?
•Conclusion
Making and Changing Health Policy • The Policy Community
•The Policy Process
•The Sources of Policy Inputs
•Policy Analysis in the DHSS
Implementing Health Policy •The Administration of the NHS
•The Role of the DHSS
•Professional Influences on Policy Implementation
•Policy-Making in Health Authorities
•Conclusion
The Impact of Health Services •The Availability of Health Services
•Monitoring and Evaluating Services
•Conclusion
Power in Health Services •Marxist Approaches
•Pluralism
•Structuralist Approaches
•Concepts of Health
•Power, Interests and Ideology
•Conclusion and Summary
•Guide to Further Reading References
•Index
Summary
Covers Britain's National Health Service: its policy and structure.
