This paper discusses the decentralisation in the English National Health Service (and the
new organisational form of Foundation Trusts, in particular) in the context of the trend for …

Decentralisation has returned as a key theme in English health policy in recent years in
policies such as Patient Choice and Foundation Trusts, among many others. The goal of …

English As the National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 50th birthday, the new Labour
government has proposed a radical shake-up in the way it is organised. The most innovative …

The social organisation and political culture of the society in which an organisation is
embedded can have major effects on the way in which organisational policy is implemented …

The creation of a large managerial stratum within the British National Health Service in
recent years has been one of the most striking characteristics of reforms intended to develop …

Decentralisation in the health care sector has been perceived in these last years as a means
to revamp the performance of health care systems. Many European countries have …

The role of local government in health care matters in Britain has never been trouble‐free.
From the dissolution of the Boards of Guardians in 1929, through to the creation of the NHS …

This article reviews the effects of political devolution on health care in the countries of Great
Britain at the end of the first term of the new political institutions created in 1999. In the light …

An important goal of policy in the British National Health Service (NHS) is to increase public
involvement in health care governance. In the hospital sector this led in 2003 to the …

A political emphasis upon the devolution of governance and management in the British
National Health Service has, since 1997, been paralleled by an apparent concern to …