Goode, Jackie, Greatbatch, David, O'Cathain, Alicia, Luff, Donna, Hanlon, Gerard, Strangleman, Tim (2004) Risk and the responsible health consumer: The problematics of entitlement among callers to NHS Direct. Critical Social Policy, 24 (2). pp. 210-232. ISSN 0261-0183. E-ISSN 1461-703X. (doi:10.1177/0261018304041951) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38234)
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Abstract
NHS Direct, the 24-hour telephone helpline, uses modern communications technology to offer easier and faster access to advice about health, illness and the NHS so that people are better able to care for themselves and their families. In-depth interviews with callers to the service show that they bring with them discourses of the 'deserving' and 'undeserving' familiar in the provision of other welfare services. The figure of the 'time-waster' is the NHS equivalent of the welfare 'scrounger', acting as a mechanism to problematize entitlement. NHS Direct dispels such fears and legitimizes demand. At the same time, ever-rising levels of service use constitute a threat to what callers value most about it.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/0261018304041951 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | Health care, Patient empowerment, Rationing, Technology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
| Depositing User: | Mita Mondal |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2014 10:30 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:22 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38234 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
University of Kent Author Information
Strangleman, Tim.
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