Hospital Policy in the United Kingdom - Its Development, Its Future

Informationen zum Autor Anthony John Harrison, Sally Prentice Zusammenfassung Harrison and Prentice aim to provide a source of reference and reflection for those who are concerned with the planning of hospitals themselves or who are concerned with the health care delivery system as a whole. The authors set out a detailed framework for analyzing hospital services in relation to other providers, based on clinical quality, costs of provision, and access. The book also contains a series of recommendations for action. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The development of hospital policy; 2: Why general hospitals?; 3: Systems of hospitals; 4: Hospitals and other providers; 5: Scale, scope and clinical quality; 6: Scale, scope and costs; 7: Access; 8: The demand for hospital services; 9: The supply of hospital services; 10: Access: prospects and policies; 11: What should be done?; Annex; Bibliographical notes

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• Authors: Anthony Harrison, Anthony John Harrison, Anthony John Prentice Harrison, Harrison Anthony John, Sally Prentice, Prentice Sally
• Assisted by: Harrison Anthony (Editor), Prentice Sally (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.1997
• EAN: 9781560009788
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-978-8
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Nursing / Home & Community Care, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Community nursing, MEDICAL / Nursing / Care Plans