Desperately Seeking Solutions: Rationing Health Care
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE The Dilemma of Rationing Health Care: Origins and Definitions -- 1 Introduction -- Rationing: the health policy challenge -- Should rationing be explicit or implicit? -- The globalization of new public management -- The argument so far -- The approach -- Structure of book -- 2 Defining terms -- Introduction -- The problem -- The options -- The rhetoric of rationing -- From priority-setting to rationing -- Conclusion -- PART TWO The Health-Care Rationing Debate in the UK: a Review -- 3 The management agenda -- Introduction -- The 1991 NHS changes -- From hierarchies to markets -- Management and the medical profession -- Conclusion -- 4 Rationing: a national or local matter? -- Introduction -- A national approach -- A local approach -- Conclusion -- PART THREE Health-Care Rationing: Lesson-learning and Future Prospects -- 5 International approaches to rationing health care -- Introduction -- On the Oregon trail -- New Zealand: defining core services -- The Netherlands: defining key principles -- Sweden: principles and priorities -- International experience: what can be learned? -- 6 Issues and prospects -- Introduction -- Policy options -- A concluding comment -- References -- Index.