1st Edition
Conflicts in the National Health Service
1. Promises, Patients and Politics: The Conflicts of the NHS Keith A. Barnard 2. Medical Autonomy: Challenge and Response Mary Ann Elston 3. Access and Efficiency in Medical Care: A Consideration of Accident and Emergency Services Arthur Gunawardena and Kenneth Lee 4. Patients: Receivers or Participants? Malcolm L. Johnson 5. Power, Patients and Pluralism Chris J. Ham 6. Participation or Control? The Workers’ Involvement in Management Stuart J. Dimmock 7. Health Administration and the Jaundice of Reorganisation J. Crossley Sunderland 8. Making Reorganisation Work: Challenges and Dilemmas in the Development of Community Medicine David Towell 9. Planning, Uncertainty and Judgement: The Case of Population Andrew F. Long 10. Public Expenditures, Planning and Local Democracy Kenneth Lee.
Biography
Keith Barnard was Deputy Director and Lecturer in Health Planning at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Kenneth Lee was Lecturer in Health Economics at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
'Overall this book provides a useful window on questions thought to be important by knowledgeable teachers and critics of the NHS...of particular interest are the essays on planning and administration at the local level...' Rosemary Stevens, Tulane University, USA.
