Planning, Markets and Hospitals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415196062)

Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained have changed significantly over time. Drawing substantially on original research, lanning, Markets and Hospitals represents a systematic attempt to access the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of planning and coordination of hospital development. The period covered includes: services prior to 1948; wartime hospital policy; the successes and failures of the mixed economy of health care in the inter-war period; the national hospital plan of 1962 and ultimately the market based reforms of 1991 and the changes since. This book makes a fresh contribution to enduring debates about planning and regulation of health care, about the governance of welfare services and about the appropriate role for voluntary, commercial and charitable provision of services. It reinterprets previous histories of hospital policy and questions whether current policies will reconcile competing goals of equity and choice.

Author: John Mohan
ISBN-10: 041519606X
ISBN-13: 9780415196062
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2002
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.66h x 6.16w x 0.81d