Abstract: Much speculation has taken place over exactly how the proposed changes to the NHS, advocated in the White Paper Working for Patients (DoH, 1989), will be implemented. This chapter steps back from the detailed debate to take a strategic look at the White Paper proposals in the context of basic objectives and the range of available methods of financing and organising health services. These are described in Section 2 and used in Section 3 to classify the schemes advocated by various interest groups prior to the publication of the White Paper. Section 4 discusses the criteria by which the success or failure of reform proposals might be judged. In Section 5 these criteria are used to assess three of the major changes proposed in the White Paper.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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