A number of health care systems use waiting time as a rationing device for access to
inpatient care. However, a considerable amount of research has focussed in particular on …

Contracts for the delivery of public services are promoted as a means of harnessing the
resources of the private sector and making publicly funded services more accountable …

How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us, like taxes, into
services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other …

Health care reform has become one of the most prevalent topics in recent policy discourse
within and across nations. In the 1990s, common features of the health care arena elevated …

Examining the effects of economic and political restructuring on regions in Europe and North
America, the main themes here are: international economic restructuring; political …

This chapter explores the organisational structures, networks and processes that underpin
policy development and planning in the NHS, including the mechanisms that allocate …

This book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s
and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen. Each of the chapters begins …

Urban Policy and Practice is a practical and critical guide to urban policy in contemporary
Britain. The book covers a range of topics including:* Quality and consumerism in the public …

This article examines empirical evidence on the impact of the introduction of a quasi-market
in healthcare in the UK on professionals, especially doctors. Data are drawn from two …

An evaluation of the National Health Service reforms which resulted from the white paper
Working for Patients, delivered in January 1989. The book contains accounts of seven …