Managing public involvement in healthcare purchasing
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Managing public involvement in healthcare purchasing
（Health services management）
Open University Press, 1998
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-155) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780335196326
Description
Public involvement is a key theme within the post-reform NHS, with a growing emphasis on involving people in healthcare decision-making, improving accountability to the public and developing a stronger focus on the consumer or user of services. This challenging book establishes a framework for public involvement in healthcare. With a focus on purchasing, the authors draw on recent research understanding to describe the central factors 'driving' involvement and the organizational structures and processes by which it is underpinned. Current progress in respect of public involvement is assessed and recommendations made for the development of effective strategies. The discussion of current issues and debates is set within a wider theoretical and historical examination of the concepts of 'citizenship' and 'accountability', detailing the changing role of the 'consumer' in the context of the major developments in the organization and delivery of public services that have taken place in Britain in the last two decades.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Health and citizenship
Restructuring public services
Politics, markets and accountability
Understanding public involvement
The history of public involvement in health
Healthcare purchasing
a new framework for public involvement
Public involvement
health authority responses
Involvement
the response from the public
The future of public involvement
Bibliography
Index.
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: hard ISBN 9780335196333
Description
Public involvement is a key theme within the post-reform NHS, with an emphasis on involving people in healthcare decision-making, improving accountability to the public, and developing a stronger focus on the consumer. This text seeks to establish a framework for public involvement in healthcare. Focusing on purchasing, the authors describe the central factors driving involvement, and the organizational structures and processes which underpin it. Recommendations are made for the development of effective strategies for public involvement in healthcare purchasing. A discussion of current issues and debates is set within a wider theoretical and historical examination of the concepts of "citizenship and "accountability", detailing the role of the consumer in the context of the major changes in the organization and delivery of public services which have taken place in Britain in the last two decades.
Table of Contents
- Health and citizenship
- restructuring the public sector
- politics, markets and accountability
- understanding public involvement
- public involvement
- historical perspectives
- purchasing healthcare
- public involvement in purchasing
- the public's experience of involvememt in purchasing
- the future of public involvement in the NHS.
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