Health policy in Britain : the politics and organisation of the National Health Service / Christopher Ham.
Material type: TextSeries: Public policy and politics | Public policy and politicsPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Edition: 5th edDescription: xv, 288 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780333961766 (pbk.) :
- 9780333961759 (hbk.) :
- 0333961765
- 362.10941 HAM
- RA395.G6 H426 2004
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 362.10941 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 202320 |
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.
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.