Creating an impersonal NHS? Personalization, choice and the erosion of intimacy

Health Expectations

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-31

  Owens, John ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co production; Consumer; Direct payments; Doctor patient relationship; Intimacy; NHS reform; Patient choice; Patient centred; Personal budgets; Personalization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84921064767     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hex.12000     Document Type: Article

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