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  • Public-private relations in health care

    Author:
    Mays, Nicholas, Keen, Justin, Light, Donald, and King's Fund
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    The Labour Government's commitment to making more use of the private sector in health care is proving controversial. Opponents are concerned that it signals the end of the NHS as we know it. Yet public-private relationships are as old as the NHS. This book analyses existing relationships and the regulatory ...

  • What's gone wrong with health care? : challenges for the new millennium

    Author:
    King's Fund
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    Based on the deliberations of a Leeds Castle Foundation medical conference, this book looks in depth at five examples of how the NHS by choice or by accident has behaved with inhumanity, and seeks to draw lessons for the whole health system from these events. It reaches radical conclusions about ...

  • The rationing agenda in the NHS

    Author:
    New, Bill, Policy Institute (King's Fund), and Rationing Agenda Group
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    This paper presents the issues relating to rationing in the NHS. The group holds the view that rationing is unavoidable and feels that there should be a more explicit debate about the principles and issues involved. Questions are considered under four headings: preliminaries, ethics, democracy and empirical questions. The preliminaries ...

  • What is the real cost of more patient choice?

    Author:
    Harrison, Anthony, King's Fund, Devlin, Nancy, and Appleby, John
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    This publication lays out the questions the government must answer if it wants to place patient choice at the heart of a taxpayer-funded health care system, including how extra costs will be met, whether patients are willing and able to exercise choice in their own best interests, and what kinds ...