The United Kingdom led the world in transforming the largest single health care system from
a publicly administered service to a set of interlocking contracts. Policy lessons that can be …

Bismarck, Beveridge, and Semashko—what do these names have in common? Each man
has given his name to a model that describes one of the predominant types of statutory …

This article traces the use of managed competition policy to transform the NHS from an
administered public service to a set of interlocking markets and contracts. It reviews the …

This book reports on a British research project involving a questionnaire survey of 494
university governors and a multi-site case study analysis to examine how different types of …

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 …

Managerialism and Nursing examines the effect of new management strategies on nurses,
their morale and the profession as a whole. Using an innovative study of nurses conducted …

There has been much speculation about the introduction of the contract culture in the public
services and its consequences for those involved (including service users). This book, which …

In this paper we use non‐parametric mathematical programming models to compute and
decompose Malmquist indices of productivity and quality change, which are used to …

This work claims that women are being exploited by the health-care providers. It takes a
critical look at the kind of health care provided for women by mainstream medicine and …

Do health systems become more efficient, less subject to cost escalation, and more
responsive to patient needs when there is competition among insurers and providers and …