NHS Reform and Health Politics in the UK

This book provides an original analysis of the trajectory of health policy reform in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the ‘Thatcher reforms’ in the

Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experien

This book explains the politics of thirty years of ‘market reform’ in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual. Paton shows how each subse

Taking a ‘decentred’ approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which reforms

This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and

In this timely and unique work, Calum Paton assesses the political economy and politics of current health policy in order to explain the underlying causes of pr

This collection reprints key articles covering the organization, financing, and regulation of health care systems in three distinct contexts: * the development

Health care reform has become one of the most prevalent topics in recent policy discourse within and across nations. In the 1990s, common features of the health

This book contends that attempts to reform the NHS can only be understood by reference to both the wider social and political context, and to the organisational