商品簡介
Health Policy and the NHS is a completely revised and updated version of the highly acclaimed first edition published in 1984. Since then there have been a number of significant changes in the direction of health policy and in the mode of delivery of health services, particularly since the introduction of the 1990 reforms.
This key text provides a thorough and up-to-date review of the changes in the structure and organisation of the health service. It focuses on how successive governments have approached problems of health care, their policy assumptions and the economic and political context of their decision-making.
Divided into four parts the text considers in turn: the foundations and framework of the NHS, policy issues within the NHS that dominated the government's policy agenda until the late 1980s, health and society and critiques of health policy which developed in the late 1970s and 1980s, and new directions for health policy in the future.
Covering a broad range of issues and giving access to a wide range of sources Health Policy and the NHS is essential reading for students taking degree courses in health policy, social policy, health studies or health service management. It will also be of great interest to policy makers and health service managers.
作者簡介
Judith Allsop is Professor of Social Policy, South Bank University.
