A National Health Service?: The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain Since 1979 - Hardcover

Mohan, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312124104 ISBN 13: 9780312124106

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

Synopsis

This text contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms should be seen not as the inevitable product of technical developments, nor as a consensus response to managerial difficulties within the NHS, but rather as part of a wider political strategy towards state provision of welfare. The book strongly emphasises the uneven geographical impacts of post-1979 changes, a topic usually underplayed by analysts of social policy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312124104
• ISBN 13: 9780312124106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 287