Governing the New Nhs: Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management

by Andrew Corbett-nolan, John Bullivant, John Storey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415492769
• ISBN13: 9780415492768
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"