ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1977, this book explored some of the major problems besetting the Health Service during the second half of the twentieth century. Now, as then, they offer both historical perspective on contemporary difficulties and invite debate about the future development of health services. The main themes are the medical care system and its organisational structures; the managers and the providers of the system, their tasks and responses; the resources available whether financial, human or material; and finally the consumers and their influence upon the overall direction of the system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|20 pages
Access and Efficiency in Medical Care
A Consideration of Accident and Emergency Services
chapter 8|22 pages
Making Reorganisation Work
Challenges and Dilemmas in the Development of Community Medicine