HARDBACK: A National Health Service? The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979

MOHAN, John

ISBN 10: 0312124104 / ISBN 13: 9780312124106

Published by Macmillan 1st edn, 1995

About this Item

pp.xx, 286 pages, with 8 tables and 11 figures, a Fine hardback in a fine dustwrapper [0312124104].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HARDBACK: A National Health Service? The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979
• Publisher: Macmillan 1st edn
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312124104
• ISBN 13: 9780312124106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Welfare

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Synopsis

This book 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 narrowly 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impacts of post-1979 changes, a topic usually underplayed by analysts of social policy, and draws heavily on previously unpublished material.