Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through
mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring …

Public sectors struggle with professionalism. Classic professions are weakened, welfare
state occupations professionalize, and public managers try to become professionals. This …

All health care systems face problems of justice and efficiency related to setting priorities for
allocating a limited pool of resources to a population. Because many of the central issues …

This paper investigates why economic approaches to priority setting have had only limited
impact in practice. It argues that obstacles to the take-up of the economic approach centre …

What is social policy, and why are welfare systems important? How have they been affected
by the global financial crisis? The fourth edition of this well-respected textbook provides an …

Our aims in this volume are to introduce readers to a fairly wide range of descriptive and
analytical material about the past and present politics of healthcare in Britain. Our working …

Priority setting in health care is an issue of increasing importance. Choices about the use of
health care budgets are inescapable and difficult. A number of countries have sought to …

Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the
rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited …

The work of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, an agency which has recently been
created by Tony Blair's Labour government to provide guidance on best clinical practice to …

Because of the managerialization of health care and the rise of health care managers,
professionals and managers increasingly 'clash'. To reduce clashes, managerial and …