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Three Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004
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Rudolf Klein
Abstract
This chapter reviews the latest series of policies that were designed to ‘transform’ the National Health Service, and places them in the context of the evolving approach of Labour to health service reform since 1997. It is pointed out that no major health policy initiatives were introduced in 2004, and that no significant shifts in government strategy were observed.
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Abstract
This chapter reviews the latest series of policies that were designed to ‘transform’ the National Health Service, and places them in the context of the evolving approach of Labour to health service reform since 1997. It is pointed out that no major health policy initiatives were introduced in 2004, and that no significant shifts in government strategy were observed.
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
- Introduction 1
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Current services
- Social security and welfare reform under New Labour 15
- New Labour’s education policy: innovation or reinvention? 33
- Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004 51
- Housing in an ‘opportunity society’ 69
- Personal Social Services 85
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Current issues
- Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript 107
- At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects 125
- The future of healthcare in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions 147
- Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities 167
- The challenges of measuring government output in the healthcare sector 183
- Social investment perspectives and practices: a decade in British politics 203
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New Labour
- A rootless third way: a continental European perspective on New Labour’s welfare state, revisited 233
- Welfare after Thatcherism: New Labour and social democratic politics 255
- A progressive consensus in the making? 273
- New Labour’s family policy 289
- Index 303
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Notes on contributors v
- Introduction 1
-
Current services
- Social security and welfare reform under New Labour 15
- New Labour’s education policy: innovation or reinvention? 33
- Transforming the NHS: the story in 2004 51
- Housing in an ‘opportunity society’ 69
- Personal Social Services 85
-
Current issues
- Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript 107
- At home abroad: the presidential election of 2004, the politics of American social policy and what European readers might make of these subjects 125
- The future of healthcare in the UK: think-tanks and their policy prescriptions 147
- Consumerism and the reform of public services: inequalities and instabilities 167
- The challenges of measuring government output in the healthcare sector 183
- Social investment perspectives and practices: a decade in British politics 203
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New Labour
- A rootless third way: a continental European perspective on New Labour’s welfare state, revisited 233
- Welfare after Thatcherism: New Labour and social democratic politics 255
- A progressive consensus in the making? 273
- New Labour’s family policy 289
- Index 303
