The New Politics of the National Health Service

Klein,Rudolf

PRENTICE/HALL

Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama’s health care reform. Presented as a kind of dialogue between the two, the book offers their recent writings on the future of Medicare; universal health insurance; conflicts of interest among physicians, regulators, and patients; and many other topics.

Politics, Health, and Health Care: Selected Essays

Business & Money

Marmor, Theodore R.

Economics

Yale University Press

This volume presents an introduction to the issue of the rationing in health care. It does this by examining the processes which determine who gets what in the way of treatment, the decision makers involved at different levels, and the criteria used in making such decisions.

Managing Scarcity (Health Services Management)

Medical Books

Klein Com, Dave

Administration & Medicine Economics

Open University Press

The 'rationing' of health care has become one of the most emotive issues of the 1990s in the UK, causing much public confusion and political controversy. This book provides a comprehensive and critical introduction to this debate. It does so by examining the processes which determine who gets what in the way of treatment, the decision makers involved at different levels in the NHS and the criteria used in making such decisions. In particular it analyses the relationship between decisions about spending priorities (taken by politicians and managers) and decisions about rationing care for individual patients (taken by doctors), between explicit and implicit rationing. As well as drawing on research-based evidence about what is happening in Britain today, Managing Scarcity also looks at the experience of the NHS since 1948 and puts the case of health care in the wider context of publicly funded services and programmes which have to allocate limited resources according to non-market criteria. Managing Scarcity is recommended reading for students and researchers of health policy, as well as health professionals and policy makers at all levels in the NHS.

Managing Scarcity: Priority Setting and Rationing in the National Health Service (State of Health)

Politics & Social Sciences

Day, Patricia

Redmayne, Sharon

Social Sciences

Open Univ Pr

Throughout the 1980s, the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy to develop indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress been placed on accountability and performance, a trend which will be reinforced as government continues to devolve activities to agencies and looks for methods to assess their performance. "How Organizations Measure Success" analyzes existing methods from their origins in the 1960s to their revival in the 1980s as part of the Financial Management Initiative. The authors examine the natural history of performance indicators across a variety of government departments and public agencies as well as private businesses. The case studies include the National Health Service, the Department of Social Security, the police and the courts, as well as a chain of supermarkets and a clearing bank. The findings illuminate problems of both design and implementation and highlight other issues including the implications of performance indicators for democratic accountability.

How Organisations Measure Success: The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

Carter, Neil

Administrative Law

Routledge

How Organisations Measure Success

Reports on two years of field research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Examines performance indicators across a variety of government departments and public agencies as well as private businesses.

Accountabilities: Five Public Services

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

This book is concerned, in essence with the quest for rationality in decision making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s, established specifically to foster greater policy coordination have fallen foul of the changed political climate of the 1980s, in which the pressures of the marketing place have become the principal determinant of policy formation. Paradoxically, however, this shift has led to renewed interest in policy coordination and, in Joint Approaches to Social Policy, the authors seek to provide a clear understanding of its reality, rather than rhetoric.

Joint Approaches to Social Policy: Rationality and Practice

Webb, Adrian

Challis, Linda

Fuller, Susan

Henwood, Melanie

Plowden, William

Whittingham, Peter

Wistow, Gerald

Cambridge University Press

Longman Pub. Group

94p paperback, cover very good though faded to spine, light scuffing to rear, internally very clean and bright, binding tight, name in ink, very good.

Social policy and public expenditure, 1974: An interpretive essay

Centre for Studies in Social Policy

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