Contracting for Health: Quasi-Markets and the National Health Service / Edition 1

by Robert Flynn, Gareth Williams

Overview

Sweeping changes have taken place in many parts of the world in the provision and organization of health care, welfare, and other "public" services. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has been a prime example of this. This book presents a detailed analysis of these changes, focusing in particular on the management and organization, and strengths and weaknesses of the "contract" culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198290223
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/29/1997
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.77(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Salford

University of Salford

Table of Contents

List of Contributors1. Contracting for Health, Rob Flynn and Gareth Williams2. The Impact of Competition on the Behaviour of National Health Service Trusts, Carol Propper and Will Bartlett3. Contractual Changes in Schools and General Practices: Professional Resistance and the Roles of Absorption and Absorbing Groups, Jane Broadbent and Richard Laughlin4. Quasi-Markets and Quasi-Trust: The Social Construction of Contracts for Community Health Services, Rob Flynn, Gareth Williams, and Susan Pickard5. Statements of Mutual Faith: Soft Contracts n Social Care, Irvine Lapsley and Sue Llewellyn6. Contracting in the National Health Service: Legal and Economic Issues, Kit Barker, Martin Chalkley, James M. Malcomcon, and Jonathan Montgomery7. Settling Contract Disputes in the National Health Service: Formal and Informal Pathways, David Hughes, Jean V. McHale, and Lesley Griffiths8. Rhetoric and Reality in Contracting: Research In and On the National Health Service, Peter Checkland9. The Experience of Contracting in Health Care, Peter Spurgeon, Paula Smith, Mary Straker, Nicholas Deakin, Neil Thomas, and Kieron Walsh10. Health-Care Contracting and Social Science: Issues in Theory and Practice, Gareth Williams and Rob FlynnBibliographyIndex