Decentring Health Policy

Mark Bevir is Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for British Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University - MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands, and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, UK. Justin Waring a Professor of Organisational Sociology and Associate Dean at Nottingham University Business School, where he founded and directed the Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning between 2012-2017, at the University of Nottingham, UK.

• 1. Decentring Health Policy: Traditions, Narratives, Dilemmas2. Sedimented Governance in the English National Health Service3. Governing Professionals in a Decentred State: Case Studies from the English National Health Service4. Governing Primary Care: Manipulated Emergence, Ambigious Rules and Shifting Incentives5. Decentring Patient Safety Governance: Case Studies Four English Foundation Trust Hospital Boards6. Network Contra Network: The Gap between Policy and Practice in the Organisation of Major Trauma Care7. Patient and Public Involvement in the New NHS: Choice, Voice, and the Pursuit of Legitimacy8. (De)politicising Hospital Closures in Scottish Health Policy, 2000-20169. Congruence and Incoherence: Public Health Governance and Policy in a Devolved UK10. Welsh Health Governance, or Health Governance in Wales11. Transforming a Public Good into a Private Bad: Political Legitimacy, Wilful Deceit and the Reform of NHS in England

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