TY - BOOK AU - Ham,Christopher TI - Health policy in Britain: the politics and organisation of the National Health Service T2 - Public policy and politics SN - 9780333961766 (pbk.) : AV - RA395.G6 H426 2004 U1 - 362.10941 HAM PY - 2004/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Great Britain KW - National Health Service KW - Medical policy KW - National Health Service (Great Britain) KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc KW - Health systems & services KW - thema N1 - Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999; Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-281) and index; Introduction --The Development of Health Services and Health Policy --Health Policy under Thatcher and Major --New Labour and the NHS --Funding Health Services and Setting Priorities-- Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland --The Policy making Process in Central Government --Making and Changing Health Policy --Implementing Health Policy --Auditing and Evaluating Health Policy --Power in Health Services --Looking to the Future N2 - Systematically updated throughout, the fifth edition of this leading text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of health policy in the UK. The book describes and analyses the organization and politics of the NHS, and examines both in light of Labour government policy since 1997 ER -