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Who decides who decides? : enabling choice, equity, access, improved performance, and patient guaranteed care / John Spiers ; foreword by Philip Booth.

Title
Who decides who decides? : enabling choice, equity, access, improved performance, and patient guaranteed care / John Spiers ; foreword by Philip Booth.
Author
Spiers, John, 1941-
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Radcliffe Pub, 2008.

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xiv, 258 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
"Who Decides Who Decides? makes the case for 'ordinary' people to get the health and social care which the state has promised them for over 60 years but which has not been delivered." "The book urges individual financial empowerment, through a life-long health savings account for all NHS and social services."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Great Britain. National Health Service
  • Great Britain. National Health Service
  • Patient-Centered Care
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Quality of Health Care
  • National Health Programs
  • Medical care > Great Britain
  • Health services accessibility > Great Britain
  • Insurance, Health
  • United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction. Sources for courses -- 1. Vignettes and visions -- 2. Why choice? Two concepts of order -- 3. Language, and smuggled goods -- 4. The ticking clock: six policy recommendations -- 5. The seven uninvited guests: 'markets', 'risk', 'competition', 'customer', 'profit', 'price' and 'demand' -- 6. The present reforms: 'coherent and right'? -- 7. Compare and contrast: performance, probable or actual? -- 8. What are politicians for? -- 9. Cancer and 'the efficiency myth' -- 10. The 'choice agenda' and the problem of knowledge -- 11. 'When the axe came into the forest ...' -- 12. Will 'a new localism' answer? -- 13. Will giving power back to the doctors answer? -- 14. The messages of the aesthetic environment -- 15. Between the data and the deep blue sea -- 16. 'Coercion, contagion, learning, coaching' -- 17. Are you being personal, or what? -- 18. To see the statue in the marble -- 19. The picture in the frame -- 20. World-class commissioning? 'Thanks, but no thanks. I think I will go round the corner' -- 21. My body, but your decision? 'Concordat', and shared decision making -- 22. How many fingers make five? Culture, kultur, and permission to change -- 23. Postscript: Dazzled by Darzi?
ISBN
  • 9781846192760
  • 1846192765
OCLC
  • 236342993
  • SCSB-12540012
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Harvard Library