New localism in the English National Health Service: What is it for?

Health Policy

Volumn 79, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 244-252

  Allen, Pauline ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decentralisation; Foundation Trusts; National Health Service

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITIZENSHIP; COMMUNITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LABOR MANAGEMENT; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 33749521609     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Klein R. The new localism: once more through the revolving door?. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 8 4 (2003) 195-196
2. Ferlie E., and Fitzgerald L. The sustainability of the New Public Management in the UK. In: McLaughlin K., Osborne S., and Ferlie E. (Eds). New Public Management: current trends and future prospects (2002), Routledge, London
3. Allen P., and Riemer Hommel P. What are 'third way' governments learning? Health care consumers and quality in England and Germany. Health Policy 76 (2006) 202-212
4. Jenkins S. Accountable to none: the Tory nationalization of Britain (1995), Hamilton, London
5. Klein R. The new politics of the NHS. 4th ed. (2001), Pearson, Harlow
6. Moran M. Reshaping the healthcare state. Government and opposition 29 1 (1994) 48-62
7. Webster C. The National Health Service: a political history. 2nd ed. (2002), Oxford University Press, Oxford
8. Peckham S., Exworthy M., Powell M., and Greener I. Decentralisation, centralisation and devolution in publicly funded health services (2005), NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D Programme, London
9. Allsopp J. Health policy and the NHS. 2nd ed. (1995), Longman, Harlow
10. Baggott R. Health and health care in Britain. 3rd ed. (2004), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
11. Allen P. A socio-legal and economic analysis of contracting in the NHS internal market using a case study of contracting for district nursing. Social Science and Medicine 54 2 (2002) 255-266
12. National Health Service Executive. The Patient's Charter. Leeds: NHSE; 1995.
13. National Health Service Executive. Local Voices. Leeds: NHSE; 1995.
14. Paton C. Devolution and the NHS. Social Policy and Administration 27 2 (1993) 83-108
15. Beveridge, W. Social Insurance and Allied Services Report. HMSO; 1942.
16. Le Grand J. Motivation, agency and public policy: of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens (2003), Oxford University Press
17. Department of Health. The New NHS Modern and Dependable, White Paper Cmd 3807. London: HMSO; 1997.
18. Allen P. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose: to the internal market and back in the British National Health Service. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 1 4 (2002) 171-178
19. Department of Health. The NHS Plan: a plan for investment a plan for reform Cm4818-I. London: HMSO; 2000.
20. National Health Service Executive. The new NHS modern and dependable: a national framework for assessing performance. Leeds; 1998.
21. Klein R. Governance of NHS Foundation Trusts. British Medical Journal 326 (2003) 174-175
22. Reid, J. Localising the NHS New Local Government Network; 2004.
23. Blears H. Communities in control: public services and local socialism (2003), Fabian Society, London
24. Department of Health. Building on the best: choice, responsiveness and equity in the NHS. London: Department of Health; 2003.
25. Burgess S., Propper C., and Wilson D. Will more choice improve outcomes in education and health care? The evidence from economic research (2005), CMPO, Bristol
26. Eagle, A. A deeper democracy: challenging market fundamentalism. Catalyst Working Paper. London: Catalyst; 2003.
27. Wainwright H. Reclaiming the State (2003), Verso, London
28. Finlayson A. Making sense of New Labour (2003), Lawrence and Wishart
29. New Local Government Network. Making Community Leadership Real. London: NLGN; 2005.
30. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Sustainable communities: people, places and prosperity. London: ODPM; 2005.
31. Department of Health. Shifting the Balance of Power within the NHS: Securing Delivery. London: Department of Health; 2001.
32. Department of Health. Commissioning a Patient Led NHS Chief Executive's letter 28 July, ref. 5312; 2005.
33. Department of Health. Department of Health website, accessed 16 March 2005 at http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/OrganisationPolicy/SecondaryCare/NHSFoundationTrust/fs/en; 2005.
34. Department of Health. Department of Health website, accessed 17 March 2005 at http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/OrganisationPolicy/FinanceAndPlanning/NHSFinancialReforms/NHSFinancialReformsArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4065236&chk=/HOpHu; 2004.
35. Health and Social Care (Community Health Standards) Act 2003 [chapter 43].
36. Vincent Jones, P. Corporatization, competition and the general interest in Health Services Regulation Paper delivered to Law, Economic Incentives and Public Service Culture Conference. University of Bristol, 26th May 2005.
37. Mutuo, accessed from their website www.mutuo.co.uk; 2005.
38. NHS Employers. Agenda for change: terms and conditions of service handbook, Annex K SO. Leeds; 2005.
39. Allen P. Contracts in the NHS internal market. Modern Law Review 58 3 (1995) 321-342
40. Treitel G. The law of contract. 11th ed. (2003), Sweet and Maxwell, London
41. Monitor. Compliance framework. London: Monitor; 31st March 2005.
42. Moyes, W. Reflections autonomy and regulation in the NHS University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust Annual Healthcare Lecture; 6th June 2005.
43. Davies A. Foundation Hospitals: a new approach to accountability and autonomy in the delivery of public services. Public Law (2004) 808-828
44. Saltman R., Bankauskaite V., and Vrangbaek K. Decentralisation in health care: strategies and outcomes (2003), EOCHS, Madrid
45. Levaggi, R, Smith, P. Decentralization in health care: evidence from public economics, Paper presented at Centre for Health Economics, University of York; 2004.
46. Blomquist P. The choice revolution: privatisation of Swedish welfare services in the 1990s. Social Policy and Administration 38 2 (2004) 139-155
47. Gorsky M, Mohan J, Willis T. Mutualism and health care: hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain. Manchester University Press [in press].
48. Johnston M., and Jowell R. How robust is British civil society?. In: Park A., et al. (Ed). British Social Attitudes: the 18th Report (2001), Sage, London
49. Barnes, M, Sullivan, H, Matka, E. National evaluation of health action zones: the development of collaborative capacity in HAZs. University of Birmingham; 2003.
50. Day P., and Klein R. Governance of Foundation Trusts: dilemmas of diversity (2005), The Nuffield Trust, London
51. Healthcare Commission. Review of Foundation Trusts. London: Healthcare Commission; 2005.
52. Monitor. Report on elections and membership of Foundation Trusts. London: Monitor; 2004.
53. Lewis R. Governing Foundation Trusts (2005), King's Fund, London
54. Mohan, J. Reconciling equity and choice? Foundation Hospitals and the future of the NHS. London: Catalyst; 2003.
55. Osborne, D, Gaebler, T. Reinventing government: how the entrepreneurial spirit is transforming the public sector. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley; 1992.
56. Argyris C. The applicability of organizational sociology (1972), Cambridge University Press, London
57. Schmid H. Relationships between organisational properties and organisational effectiveness in three non-profit human service organisations. Public Personnel Management 31 3 (2002) 377-395
58. Hales C. Leading horses to water? The impact of decentralisation on managerial behaviour. Journal of Management Studies 36 6 (1999) 831-851
59. De Vries M. The rise and fall of decentralisation: a comparative analysis of arguments and practices in European countries. European journal of Political Research 38 (2000) 193-224
60. Lloyd-Sherlock P. Ambitious plans, modest outcomes: the politics of health care reform in Argentina. In: Kaufman R., and Nelson J. (Eds). Crucial needs, weak incentives: social sector reform, democratization and globalization in Latin America. Washington, DC (2004), Woodrow Wilson Center Press
61. Sheaff R., Schofield J., Mannion R., Dowling B., Marshall M., and McNally R. Organisational factors and performance: a review of the literature (2004), NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D Programme, London
62. Howell B. Lessons from New Zealand for England's NHS Foundation Trusts. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 9 2 (2004) 104-109
63. Department of Health. Creating a Patient Led NHS: Delivering the NHS Improvement Plan. London: Department of Health; 2005.
64. Milburn, A. Localism: the need for a new settlement, speech at Demos seminar; 21 January 2004.
65. Powell M. In what sense a National Health Service?. Public Policy and Administration 13 3 (1998) 56-69