This book explains the politics of thirty years of ‘market reform’ in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual. Paton shows how each subsequent reform has been shaped by the confusion left by the previous reform. The long-term ideology has been anti-statist but policy-making at each stage of ‘reform’ has been driven by short-term politics. The outcome in England has been ever-increasing complexity in the NHS, with significantly increased management costs and no commensurate benefit.
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Paton, C. (2016). The politics of health policy reform in the UK: England’s permanent revolution. The Politics of Health Policy Reform in the UK: England’s Permanent Revolution (pp. 1–214). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47343-1
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