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Patients, power and responsibility : the first principles of consumer-driven reform / John Spiers ; foreword by Karol Sikora.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon : Radcliffe Medical, 2003Description: xiv, 258 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1857759249
  • 9781857759242
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1068 21
Contents:
Foreword Karol Sikora -- Pt. 1. Patients: some introductions -- 1. Must reform always be like trying to knit with water? -- 2. Patients, culture and anarchy -- 3. Time, money and capacity -- 4. To raise all boats -- 5. Dynamism, stasism and two concepts of order -- 6. Twelve good ideas and true -- 7. First principles and their context -- 8. How many doors are open to me? -- 9. The meaning of 'equality' -- 10. The meaning of 'choice' -- 11. The prerequisites and framework of change -- 12. Cash on the nail -- 13. Lord Beveridge and what is really at stake -- 14. Why people hesitate about change -- 15. The importance of relationships -- 16. Money talks, preference walks -- 17. 'Needs' and 'wants' -- 18. Incentives to change: in whose interest? -- 19. With eyes to see: one people, one market, one service -- Pt. 2. Power and responsibility: some policy in practice -- 20. Order in a self-organised system -- 21. Getting it done 1 -- 22. Getting it done 2 -- 23. Market mimicry, or the alternatives to the patient fundholder -- 24. Conclusion: look, see, choose.
Review: "This book is essential reading for policy makers and shapers, healthcare managers, and all those with an interest in the role of patients in healthcare."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword Karol Sikora -- Pt. 1. Patients: some introductions -- 1. Must reform always be like trying to knit with water? -- 2. Patients, culture and anarchy -- 3. Time, money and capacity -- 4. To raise all boats -- 5. Dynamism, stasism and two concepts of order -- 6. Twelve good ideas and true -- 7. First principles and their context -- 8. How many doors are open to me? -- 9. The meaning of 'equality' -- 10. The meaning of 'choice' -- 11. The prerequisites and framework of change -- 12. Cash on the nail -- 13. Lord Beveridge and what is really at stake -- 14. Why people hesitate about change -- 15. The importance of relationships -- 16. Money talks, preference walks -- 17. 'Needs' and 'wants' -- 18. Incentives to change: in whose interest? -- 19. With eyes to see: one people, one market, one service -- Pt. 2. Power and responsibility: some policy in practice -- 20. Order in a self-organised system -- 21. Getting it done 1 -- 22. Getting it done 2 -- 23. Market mimicry, or the alternatives to the patient fundholder -- 24. Conclusion: look, see, choose.

"This book is essential reading for policy makers and shapers, healthcare managers, and all those with an interest in the role of patients in healthcare."--BOOK JACKET.

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