The national plan for Britain's National Health Service: Toward a managed market

Authors
Iliffe, S
Citation
S. Iliffe, The national plan for Britain's National Health Service: Toward a managed market, INT J HE SE, 31(1), 2001, pp. 105-110
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES
ISSN journal
00207314 → ACNP
Volume
31
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
105 - 110
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7314(2001)31:1<105:TNPFBN>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Britain's New Labour government has consolidated its reform of the National Health Service with an ambitious NHS Plan that links investment in staff, new buildings, and new technology to delivery of a modernization agenda com bining consumerist and public health agendas. The fundamental principles of the NHS are preserved, but within a regulatory structure of a managed mark et. The author outlines the changes proposed and the possible responses of different stakeholders.