Governing the new NHS : issues and tensions in health service management / John Storey, John Bullivant and Andrew Corbett-Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Storey, John, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Bullivant, John R. N.

Corbett-Nolan, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. National Health Service--Administration.

Great Britain.

National health services--Great Britain--Administration.

National health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a crucial and contested issue in health care.Governing the New NHS makes sense of the new systems and will enable anyone interested in healthcare governance to navigate their way confidently through the maze. It describes, assesses and critiques the new governance arrangements. It exa

Contents:

Cover; Governing the New NHS: Issues and tensions in health service management; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; A note on terminology; Foreword; Preface; 1 The architecture of NHS governance: Issues and tensions; 2 The role of regulators in the governance process; 3 The governance of networks; 4 Governing the commissioning organisations; 5 Governing the provider organisations; 6 Governance between organisations; 7 Board development for better governance; 8 Conclusions and the way ahead; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-90586-3

1-136-90587-1

9786613832511

1-283-52006-0

0-203-84246-4

9780203842461

OCLC:

804661489