ABSTRACT

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

part 1|2 pages

Preparing the ground

chapter 1|9 pages

Preparing the ground

chapter 2|4 pages

Change and development

chapter |6 pages

Public health care 1974–82

chapter |4 pages

The NHS and the internal market

chapter 3|3 pages

The health care arena

chapter |12 pages

Relationship with the formal sector

part |2 pages

Part II The issues

chapter 4|14 pages

Resources, rationing and morality

chapter 5|6 pages

Interest groups in health care

chapter |7 pages

Nurses

chapter |2 pages

Key points

chapter 6|3 pages

Managerialism, cultures and control

chapter |8 pages

The cultural impact

chapter 7|15 pages

Inequality in health and health care

chapter |13 pages

Women and the NHS

part |2 pages

Part III The future – new possibilities

chapter 8|5 pages

The mixed economy of health

chapter |6 pages

The voluntary sector

chapter |3 pages

Is a synthesis possible?

chapter 9|19 pages

Realigning the system

Towards a primary care-led NHS

chapter 10|3 pages

Promoting health and preventing illness

chapter |1 pages

Illness prevention

chapter |2 pages

Tertiary prevention

chapter |10 pages

Issues

chapter 11|6 pages

The NHS – fit for the future?

Providing health care in a modern state