Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- List of Figures, Tables and Exhibits -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Health and Illness -- Defining and Measuring Health -- Health Trends -- Factors Determining Health -- Social and Economic Inequalities and Health -- Other Health Inequalities -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 2 Medicine and the Medical Profession -- Medicine -- The Medical Profession -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 3 Critical Perspectives on Health Care -- New Right, Managerialist and Rational-Economic Critiques -- Socialism, Communitarianism and 'The Third Way' -- Feminism, Green Critiques and the Medicalisation Thesis -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 4 The Evolution of the British Health Care System -- The Health Care System before the NHS -- The Creation of a National Health Service -- The Experience of the NHS: 1948-79 -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 5 Health Policy from Thatcher to Blair -- Thatcherism and Health Policy -- Implementation: The Major Years -- Evaluating the Conservatives' NHS Internal Market -- New Labour and the NHS -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 6 Health Care Funding and Independent Sector Provision -- Funding Health Care -- Public Expenditure and the NHS -- The Independent Sector -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 7 Health Care Policy, Planning and Management -- NHS Structure and Organisation -- Central-Local Relations -- Problems of Policy and Planning -- Further Reading -- 8 Access to Health Care -- What is Access? -- What Has Been Done to Improve Access? -- Access, Priority-setting and Rationing -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 9 Managing Quality and Standards -- Quality Improvement -- Improving Quality by Preventing Adverse Incidents -- Dealing with Poor Professional Performance -- The Management of Professions -- Conclusion.

AbstractThis article examines the significance of the Beveridge report in the light of subsequent developments in health policy and the National Health Service, and considers Beveridge's vision and principles in the context of current and future health challenges. In exploring the post‐war history of health policy and services, it focuses on key themes in the Beveridge report such as prevention, coordination, comprehensive health coverage, funding and the role of the private and voluntary sectors. It argues that in the face of current and future challenges, public health, healthcare and social care should have equal status and an effective system of funding is needed across these three subsystems not only to provide appropriate resources but to ensure that prevention and coordination are prioritised and voluntary action encouraged. In the light of experience, the role of commercial organisations in health and care is more open to challenge. It is also argued that there must also be better coordination of health policy with other spheres of policy making—not just welfare and social policies but economic and environmental policies as well. This agenda requires the kind of joined‐up thinking that Beveridge himself would have applauded.

This article focuses on the development of alcohol policies in England under New Labour. It attempts to explain these policy developments with regard to the politics of the Third Way and, in particular, relationships between New Labour and industry, 'better regulation', joined-up government, evidence-based policy making and the involvement of stakeholders within the policy process. Adapted from the source document.