Health Policy and Politics

Alison Hann is Lecturer in Health Economics and Policy Studies at the School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.

Contents: Introduction, Alison Hann; The impact of the European Union on the NHS, Nick Boyd; The politics of NHS deficits and NHS reform, Calum Paton; Analysing health services decentralisation in the UK, Stephen Peckham, Mark Exworthy, Martin Powell and Ian Greener; Modernising health policy making, Arturo Alvarez-Rosete; Consumerism in health policy: where did it come from and how can it work?, Ian Greener; Choice, voice and the structures of accountability in the new NHS, Susan Pickard; Fixing legitimacy? The case of NICE and the National Health Service, Stephen Harrison and Ruth McDonald; Nothing new under the sun? Regimes of public representation in the English National Health Service: past, present and future, Anna Coleman and Stephen Harrison; 2 cheers for public health, Chris Nottingham; Taking the wait off: an examination of policy networks in a case where local policy was formulated and implemented, to reduce protracted waiting for orthopaedic services, M-L. O'Driscoll; Sleepwalking to diversity?, Gillian Olumide; Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy, Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Pharmaceutical policy in the UK, Kathryn Jones; The new general practice contract and reform of primary care in the UK, Alison Hann; Index.