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Klein3 considers that 'while in the English NHS relations between policymakers and …

Introduction: One significant change in the English National Health Service (NHS) has been
the introduction of market mechanisms. This review will explore the following questions …

Managed competition in the British NHS - Woodward - 1994 - Medical Journal of Australia -
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Despite the dominant ideology of the 1980s being libertarian, pragmatism triumphed and,
despite several attempts to privatise the UK National Health Service, the Thatcherite reforms …

Is the organisation of health care in Britain becoming similar to that in the United States?
Since the introduction of the internal market radical change has gripped the NHS. In the …

The National Health Service has yet again found itself in a period of organisational and
cultural change. Having endured some six years operating within the context of a …

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 has placed requirements on the NHS commissioners
to engage in both collaboration and competition–but there has been no indication that the …

British Journal of General Practice, March 2012 117 only to find it has become responsibility.
This is part-conspiracy, part cock-up. The conspiracy lies in the desire of government to …

The English national health service (NHS) has been on a roller coaster ride of reform in the
last decade (1, 2, 3). On its election in 1997, the Labour government turned its back on the …

Over the past decade Britain has been moving, hesitatingly and haphazardly, towards a
mixed economy of health care. The assumption that health care policy could be equated …