Public services are increasingly operating through network governance, requiring those at
all levels of the system to build collaborations and adapt their practice. Agent-focused …

Multi–sectoral approaches to health improvement in its broadest sense have entailed an
emphasis by the British government upon partnership working in and around community …

Following recent reforms of both local government and the National Health Service, there is
significant emphasis in both services on improving inter‐agency collaboration, user …

Abstract Wu, Howlett, and Ramesh's understanding of policy capacity has been used to
identify generalizable strengths and weaknesses of specific jurisdictions and policy sectors …

Introduction Patient and public involvement is the cornerstone of the 'patient‐led'National
Health Service (NHS). Though the UK has had state sponsored arrangements for patient …

Area-based initiatives have formed an important part of public policy towards more socio-
economically deprived areas in many countries. Co-ordinating service provision within and …

Abstract Context and Thesis Changing patient and public involvement (PPI) policies in
England and Wales are analysed against the background of wider National Health Service …

Academic research on health policy divergence across the United Kingdom since devolution
has characterised Scotland's approach as 'professionalistic'or 'collaborative'. This article …

Drawing on debates about the nature and significance of quasi‐autonomous government
organizations, this article asks what happens when trends towards agency creation by …

The article considers the role of public involvement in the British National Health Service in
the context of the wider shift from government to governance. Based on a comparative case …