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Two The creation of the NHS and its relevance for today
Abstract
This chapter examines the creation of the NHS and its relevance for health policy making today. It suggests that three key organisational features are central to understanding the NHS when it was created in 1948 and that three key principles were embedded in its organisational form. It outlines the process through which the three organisational features and principles emerged explains that key organisational features of the NHS which was tripartism, the double-bed relationship between the state and the medical profession and the general taxation funding mechanism chosen for the NHS.
Abstract
This chapter examines the creation of the NHS and its relevance for health policy making today. It suggests that three key organisational features are central to understanding the NHS when it was created in 1948 and that three key principles were embedded in its organisational form. It outlines the process through which the three organisational features and principles emerged explains that key organisational features of the NHS which was tripartism, the double-bed relationship between the state and the medical profession and the general taxation funding mechanism chosen for the NHS.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and boxes viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- List of abbreviations x
- Introduction 1
- The creation of the NHS and its relevance for today 13
- The tripartite split 39
- The double-bed 75
- Funding the NHS 113
- Managing in the NHS 137
- Nursing 163
- The role of the public in health policy 183
- Health policy under Labour 209
- Conclusion 231
- References 257
- References 285
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and boxes viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- List of abbreviations x
- Introduction 1
- The creation of the NHS and its relevance for today 13
- The tripartite split 39
- The double-bed 75
- Funding the NHS 113
- Managing in the NHS 137
- Nursing 163
- The role of the public in health policy 183
- Health policy under Labour 209
- Conclusion 231
- References 257
- References 285
