MANAGING PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH CARE PURCHASING by Carol Lupton, Stephen Peckham, Pat Taylor ( 9780335196333 )

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Title:

MANAGING PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH CARE PURCHASING

By:

Carol Lupton, Stephen Peckham, Pat Taylor

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£65.00
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ISBN 10:

0335196330

ISBN 13:

9780335196333

Publisher:

OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 July, 1998

Pages:

192

Description:

Public involvement is a key theme within the post-reform NHS, with a emphasis on involving people in healthcare decision-making, improving accountability to the public, and developing a stronger focus on the consumer. This text seeks to establish a framework for public involvement in healthcare.

Synopsis:

Public involvement is a key theme within the post-reform NHS, with an emphasis on involving people in healthcare decision-making, improving accountability to the public, and developing a stronger focus on the consumer. This text seeks to establish a framework for public involvement in healthcare. Focusing on purchasing, the authors describe the central factors driving involvement, and the organizational structures and processes which underpin it. Recommendations are made for the development of effective strategies for public involvement in healthcare purchasing. A discussion of current issues and debates is set within a wider theoretical and historical examination of the concepts of "citizenship and "accountability", detailing the role of the consumer in the context of the major changes in the organization and delivery of public services which have taken place in Britain in the last two decades.

Illustrations:

references, index

Publication:

Imprint:

Open University Press

Returns:

Non-returnable

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