On penalties and the Patient's Charter: Centralism v de-centralised governance in the NHS

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-94

  Hughes, David ^a   Griffiths, Lesley ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Commissioning; Ethnography; Management; NHS contracting; Patient's Charter; Penalty clauses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032590175     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.t01-1-00143     Document Type: Article

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