Health policy and politics / edited by Alison Hann. - xi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The impact of the European Union on the NHS / Nick Boyd -- The politics of NHS deficits and NHS re-form / Calum Paton -- Analysing health services : decentralisation in the UK / Stephen Peckham ... [et al.] -- Modernising health policy making / Arturo Alvarez-Rosete -- Consumerism in health policy : where did it come from and how can it work? / Ian Greener -- Choice, voice and the structures of accountability in the new NHS / Susan Pickard -- Fixing legitimacy? : the case of NICE and the National Health Service / Stephen Harrison and Ruth McDonald -- Nothing new under the sun? : regimes of public representation in the English National Health Service : past, present and future / Anna Coleman and Stephen Harrison -- Two cheers for public health / Chris Nottingham -- Taking the wait off : an examination of the influence of policy networks in a case where local policy was formulated and implemented, to reduce protracted waiting for orthopaedic services / M-L. O'Driscoll -- Sleepwalking to diversity? / Gillian Olumide -- Politics, ethics and evidence : immunisation and public health policy / Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham -- Pharmaceutical policy in the UK / Kathryn Jones -- The new general practice contract and reform of primary care in the UK -- Alison hann.

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Great Britain. National Health Service


Medical policy--Great Britain
Medical care--Political aspects--Great Britain
Health services administration.
Public health administration.
Politics, Practical
Political science.
National Health Programs--organization & administration

RA395.G6 / H4235 2007

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