'Creating NHS Local': The Relationship between English Local Government and the National Health Service

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 244-264

  Glasby, Jon ^a   Dickinson, Helen ^a   Smith, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care; Inter agency collaboration; Joint working; Local government; User involvement

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

EID: 77953780509     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2010.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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