1. The final frontier: The UK's new coalition government turns the English National Health Service over to the global health care market.
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Pollock, Allyson M. and Price, David
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GOVERNMENT aid , *HEALTH care rationing , *FAMILY medicine , *INTEGRATED health care delivery , *CONSORTIA , *CONTRACTING out , *CORPORATIONS , *DECENTRALIZATION in management , *FEDERAL government , *HEALTH services administration , *INVESTMENTS , *MEDICAL needs assessment , *NATIONAL health services , *PRACTICAL politics , *RESPONSIBILITY , *SOCIAL control , *USER charges , *PRIVATE sector , *GOVERNMENT regulation , *ECONOMIC competition , *ECONOMICS , *LAW - Abstract
The authors describe the incremental approach to the marketisation of the English National Health Service (NHS) since the introduction of an 'internal market' in 1990 until the 2010 White Paper, 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS', and the subsequent Health and Social Care Bill published in January 2011. The introduction of a competitive market for a universal, tax-financed health system requires fundamental changes in regulation in order that market bureaucracy can be substituted for direct management. The components of reform are insufficiently captured by the framework of hierarchies and networks in new public management theories of decentralisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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