Greener, I. and Exworthy, M. and Peckham, S. and Powell, M. (2009) Has Labour decentralised the NHS? Terminological obfuscation and analytical confusion. Policy Studies , 30 (4). pp. 439-454. ISSN 1547-1349.
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Abstract
This article considers the rise of decentralisation as an approach to public-sector reform generally, and its approach to the British National Health Service (NHS) specifically. It suggests that the term ‘decentralisation’ is often so poorly defined that reforms made in its name cannot be assessed to see if they have achieved it as a goal or not. The article explores the meanings of decentralisation and attempts to clarify it, before going on to examine, through a review of what four key commentators have said about it, how health reform under the British New Labour government, despite often claiming to be decentralising, has often been centralising instead. The article presents a framework for assessing claims of decentralisation in public reform more generally, before presenting a specific example from the NHS.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | decentralisation; health policy; National Health Service; New Labour; primary care trusts; New Labour |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Social Policy Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies |
| Depositing User: | Tony Rees |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2012 10:29 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2013 11:09 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29782 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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