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Hospital policy in the United Kingdom : its development, its future / Anthony Harrison and Sally Prentice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Anthony, 1938- author.
- Prentice, Sally, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals--Great Britain--Planning.
- Hospitals.
- Medical policy--Great Britain.
- Medical policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2017.
- Summary:
- Hospital Policy in the United Kingdom provid es the most comprehensive analysis of hospital services in t he United Kingdom to date and examines key factors that shou ld be taken into account when planning health care systems.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The development of hospital policy
- Chapter 2: Why general hospitals?
- 2.1 What is a general hospital?
- 2.2 Scope
- 2.3 Scale
- 2.4 Limits to scope and scale
- 2.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Systems of hospitals
- 3.1 Division of functions
- 3.2 Routes to Hospital
- 3.3 Relations between hospitals
- 3.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Hospitals and other providers
- 4.1 Types of relationship
- 4.2 Implications for hospital structures
- 4.3 Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Scale, scope and clinical quality
- 5.1 Research studies
- 5.2 Service reviews
- 5.3 Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Scale, scope and costs
- 6.1 Scale
- 6.2 Scope
- 6.3 Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Access
- 7.1 Financial costs
- 7.2 Clinical costs
- 7.3 Conclusion
- Chapter 8: The demand for hospital services
- 8 .1 Recent trends and prospects
- 8.2 Some aspects of overall demand
- 8.3 Conclusion
- Chapter 9: The supply of hospital services
- 9 .1 The changing hospital
- 9.2 Technology
- 9.3 Human resources
- 9.4 Cost levels
- 9.5 Management structures
- 9.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 10: Access prospects and policies
- 10.1 Travel prospects
- 10.2 Policy options
- 10.3 Conclusion
- Chapter 11: What should be done?
- 11.1 Immediate prospects
- 11.2 The context for change
- 11.3 Some scenarios for hospital development
- 11.4 Action required
- 11.5 Overall conclusion
- Annex
- Bibliographical notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-351-28875-X
- OCLC:
- 1020030962
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