Managing Public Involvement in Health Care Purchasing / Edition 1

by Carol Lupton, Lupton, Stephen Peckham

Overview

Public involvement is a key theme within the post-reform NHS, with an emphasis on involving people in healthcare decision-making, improving accountability to the public, and developing a stronger focus on the consumer. This text seeks to establish a framework for public involvement in healthcare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335196326
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	07/01/1998
Series:	Health Services Management Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

Editorial Reviews

Establishes a framework for public involvement in healthcare under the UK's National Health Service. Describes the central factors driving involvement and the organizational structures and processes underpinning it, and recommends effective strategies for encouraging public involvement. Discussion of current issues is set within a wider theoretical and historical examination of the concepts of citizenship and accountability, detailing the changing role of the consumer in the context of developments in public services that have taken place in Britain in the last two decades. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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