Contracting for Health Quasi-Markets and the National Health Service [Hardcover]

Sweeping changes have taken place in many parts of the world in the provision and organization of health care, welfare, and other public services. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has been a prime example of this. This book presents a detailed analysis of these changes, focusing in particular on the management and organization, and strengths and weaknesses of the contract culture.

List of Contributors
1. Contracting for Health,Rob Flynn and Gareth Williams
2. The Impact of Competition on the Behaviour of National Health Service Trusts,Carol Propper and Will Bartlett
3. Contractual Changes in Schools and General Practices: Professional Resistance and the Roles of Absorption and Absorbing Groups,Jane Broadbent and Richard Laughlin
4. Quasi-Markets and Quasi-Trust: The Social Construction of Contracts for Community Health Services,Rob Flynn, Gareth Williams, and Susan Pickard
5. Statements of Mutual Faith: Soft Contracts n Social Care,Irvine Lapsley and Sue Llewellyn
6. Contracting in the National Health Service: Legal and Economic Issues,Kit Barker, Martin Chalkley, James M. Malcomcon, and Jonathan Montgomery
7. Settling Contract Disputes in the National Health Service: Formal and Informal Pathways,David Hughes, Jean V. McHale, and Lesley Griffiths
8. Rhetoric and Reality in Contracting: Research In and On the National Health Service,Peter Checkland
9. The Experience of Contracting in Health Care,Peter Spurgeon, Paula Smith, Mary Straker, Nicholas Deakin, Neil Thomas, and Kieron Walsh
10. Health-Care Contracting and Social Science: Issues in Theory and Practice,Gareth Williams and Rob Flynn
Bibliography
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