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The final frontier: The UK's new coalition government turns the English National Health Service over to the global health care market.
- Source :
- Health Sociology Review; Sep2011, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p294-305, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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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]
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14461242
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Sociology Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 74387092
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2011.20.3.294