Understanding the National Health Service Reforms
Subtitle: The Creation of Incentives? (State of Health Series)
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: April 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780335192441
Subjects: Health systems & services; Public finance; Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Health Care; Health & Fitness; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Issues; Great Britain; Health care reform; National health services
First sentence: In this chapter, we examine the policy background that led up to the major changes in the NHS in the 1990s, introduced by Working for Patients (Department of Health 1989), referred to throughout this book as 'the NHS Reforms'.