Conflicts in the National Health Service

Keith Barnard was Deputy Director and Lecturer in Health Planning at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Kenneth Lee was Lecturer in Health Economics at the Nuffield Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

• 1. Promises, Patients and Politics: The Conflicts of the NHS 2. Medical Autonomy: Challenge and Response 3. Access and Efficiency in Medical Care: A Consideration of Accident and Emergency Services 4. Patients: Receivers or Participants? 5. Power, Patients and Pluralism 6. Participation or Control? The Workers’ Involvement in Management 7. Health Administration and the Jaundice of Reorganisation 8. Making Reorganisation Work: Challenges and Dilemmas in the Development of Community Medicine 9. Planning, Uncertainty and Judgement: The Case of Population 10. Public Expenditures, Planning and Local Democracy.

'Overall this book provides a useful window on questions thought to be important by knowledgeable teachers and critics of the NHS...of particular interest are the essays on planning and administration at the local level...' Rosemary Stevens, Tulane University, USA.