In this article, we investigate developments in Danish health care policy. After a short
presentation of its historical roots, we focus on the decades after the administrative reform of …

The authors describe the incremental approach to the marketisation of the English National
Health Service (NHS) since the introduction of an 'internal market'in 1990 until the 2010 …

Purpose Neo-liberal “reform” has in many countries shifted services across the boundary
between the public and private sector. This policy re-opens the question of what structural …

Governance of public hospitals in Europe is changing. Individual hospitals have been given
varying degrees of semi-autonomy within the public sector and empowered to make key …

Studies of policy‐making and management in health and related fields have generally been
confined to England even when professing to embrace Britain or the United Kingdom. The …

Providing a well-integrated, cost-effective, quality health care system that meets the needs of
the population is challenging for governments worldwide. In Australia, this challenge is …

Under the recent Conservative and current Labour Governments it appears that the NHS is
moving in two different directions at once. Some commentators claimed that the national …

The political pressure to change how hospital governance is currently organized comes from
a mix of sources, including increasing costs, technological advances, changing patterns of …

In this paper we present alternatives for describing and explaining the developments of
Nordic health care in general and hospitals in particular. The backdrop is the Norwegian …

This article brings together the author's own research and management experience of front-
line local government service and ideas from a wide variety of other sources to explore two …