Modernizing the British National Health Service (NHS) - Some ideological and policy considerations: A commentary and application

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 91-97

  Hewison, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidence based policy; Health policy; Nursing

Indexed keywords

CONTRACT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; IDEOLOGY; JOB ANALYSIS; MANAGER; NURSING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POLITICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STANDARDIZATION; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; NURSE ADMINISTRATOR; NURSE ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NURSE ADMINISTRATORS; NURSE'S ROLE; POLITICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0037362967     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2834.2003.00363.x     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Antrobus S. (1997) An analysis of nursing in context: the effects of current health policy. Journal of Advanced Nursing 25, 447-453.
2. Antrobus S. & Brown S. (1997) The impact of the commissioning agenda upon nursing practice: a proactive approach to influencing health policy. Journal of Advanced Nursing 25, 309-315.
3. Antrobus S. & Kitson S. (1999) Nursing leadership: influencing and shaping policy and nursing practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing 29, 746-753.
4. Appleby J. (1994) The reformed National Health Service: a commentary. Social Policy and Administration 28, 345-358.
5. Black N. (2001) Evidence based policy: proceed with care. British Medical Journal 323, 275-279.
6. Bradshaw P. (2003) Modernizing the British National Health Service (NHS) - some ideological and policy considerations. Journal of Nursing Management 11, 85-90.
7. Cheek J. & Gibson T. (1997) Policy matters: critical policy analysis and nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing 25, 668-672.
8. Davies H.T.O., Nutley S.M. & Smith P.C. (1999) Editorial: what works? The role of evidence in public sector policy and practice. Public Money and Management 19, 3-5.
9. Department of Health (1992a) The Patient's Charter. HMSO, London.
10. Department of Health (1992b) The Health of the Nation, a Strategy for Health in England, Cm 1986. HMSO, London.
11. Department of Health (1997) The New NHS Modern Dependable, Cm 3807. HMSO, London.
12. Department of Health (2000) The NHS Plan a Plan for Investment a Plan for Reform, Cm 4818-1. HMSO, London.
13. Dixon J. (1998) The context. In Learning from the Internal Market (J. LeGrand, N. Mays & J. Mulligan eds), pp. 1-14. King's Fund, London.
14. Donald A. (2001) Commentary: research must be taken seriously. British Medical Journal 323, 278-279.
15. Flynn R. & Williams G. eds (1997) Contracting for Health: Quasi-Markets and The National Health Service. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
16. Forbes A. & Griffiths P. (2002) Methodological strategies for the identification and synthesis of 'evidence' to support decision-making in relation to complex healthcare systems and practices. Nursing Inquiry 9, 141-155.
17. Franks A. (2001) How goes the nightwatchman? An overview of the first annual clinical governance reports 1999/2000 from acute trusts in an English NHS region. Journal of Management in Medicine 15, 220-236.
18. Gauld R. (2001) Contextual pressures on health - implications for policy making and service provision. Policy Studies, 22, 167-179.
19. Gott M. ed. (2000) Nursing Practice, Policy and Change. Radcliffe Medical Press, Abingdon.
20. Green J. & Thorogood N. (1998) Analysing Health Policy: A Sociological Approach. Longman, London.
21. Ham C. (1994a) Reforming health services: learning from the UK experience. Social Policy and Administration 28, 293-298.
22. Ham C. (1994b) Anarchy rules. Health Service Journal 104, 18-20.
23. Harrison S. & Wood B. (1999) Designing health service organization in the UK, 1968-98: from blueprint to bright idea and 'manipulated emergence'. Public Administration 77, 752-768.
24. Hennessy D. (2000) The emerging themes. In Health Policy and Nursing - Influence, Development and Impact (D. Hennessy & P. Spurgeon eds), pp. 1-38. Macmillan Press Limited, Houndmills.
25. Hennessy D. & Spurgeon P. eds (2000) Health Policy and Nursing - Influence, Development and Impact. Macmillan Press Limited, Houndmills.
26. Hewison A. (1999) The new public management and the new nursing: related by rhetoric? Some reflections on the policy process and nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing 29, 1377-1384.
27. Hicks C. (2000) Of rites, research and reforms: a systems perspective on the maintenance of clinical nursing rituals. In Health Policy and Nursing - Influence, Development and Impact (D. Hennessy & P. Spurgeon eds), pp. 176-189. Macmillan Press Limited, Houndmills.
28. Leicester G. (1999) The seven enemies of evidence-based policy. Public Money and Management 19, 5-7.
29. Lindblom C. (1959) The science of muddling through. Public Administration Review 39, 517-526.
30. Maslin-Prothero S. & Masterson A. (2002) Power, politics and nursing in the United Kingdom. Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice 3, 108-117.
31. Masterson A. & Maslin-Prothero S. eds (1999) Nursing and Politics - Power Through Practice. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
32. Meerabeau L. (1996) Managing policy research in nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing 24, 633-639.
33. Mohan J. (1996) Accounts of the NHS reforms: macro-, meso- and micro-level perspectives. Sociology of Health and Illness 18, 675-698.
34. Niessen L.W., Grijseels E.W.M. & Rutten F.H. (2000) The evidence-based approach in health policy and health care delivery. Social Science and Medicine 51, 859-869.
35. Nursing and Midwifery Council (2002) Code of Professional Conduct. NMC, London.
36. Pollock A.M., Shaoul J. & Vickers N. (2002) Private finance and 'value for money' in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale? British Medical Journal 324, 1205-1209.
37. Robinson J. (1991) Power, politics and policy analysis in nursing. In Nursing - a Knowledge Base for Practice (A. Perry & M. Jolley eds), pp. 271-305. Edward Arnold, London.
38. Robinson J., Avis M., Latimer J. & Traynor M. (1999) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Policy and Practice - Competing Interests or Complementary Interpretations? Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
39. Roland M., Campell S. & Wilkin D. (2001) Clinical governance: a convincing strategy for quality improvement? Journal of Management in Medicine 15, 188-201.
40. Sanderson I. (2002) Evaluation, policy learning and evidence-based policy making. Public Administration 80, 1-22.
41. Scott E. (2000) The nursing contribution to health services research and development. In Health Policy and Nursing - Influence, Development and Impact (D. Hennessy & P. Spurgeon eds), pp. 161-175. Macmillan Press Limited, Houndmills.
42. Scott C. & West E. (2001) Nursing in the public sphere: health policy research in a changing world. Journal of Advanced Nursing 33, 387-395.
43. Smith J., Walshe K. & Hunter D. (2001) The 'redisorganisation' of the NHS. British Medical Journal 323, 1262-1263.
44. Traynor M. (2002) The oil crisis, risk and evidenced-based practice. Nursing Inquiry 9, 162-169.
45. Walt G. (1994) Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and Power. Zed Books, London.
46. West E. & Scott C. (2000) Nursing in the public sphere: breaching the boundary between research and policy. Journal of Advanced Nursing 32, 817-824.
47. White R. (1985) Political regulators in British nursing. In Political Issues in Nursing - Past, Present and Future, Vol. 1. (R. White ed.), pp. 19-43. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
48. White R. (1988) The influence of nursing in the politics of health. In Political Issues in Nursing - Past, Present and Future, Vol. 3. (R. White ed.), pp. 15-31. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
49. Wilkinson M. (1995) Love is not a marketable commodity: new public management in the British National Health Service. Journal of Advanced Nursing 21, 980-987.