The Politics of Health Policy Reform in the UK

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

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

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 study identifies the different combinations of market, profession, management and civil society that England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales chose i

Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, o

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

Implementing Change in Health Systems brings fresh thinking and evidence to the continuing debate about market reforms of health care and other public services.