… The UK National Health Service is no exception, with NHS history, … health care ‘economies’,
exploring their perceptions of … that the strong focus on local autonomy was calculated at least …

… As illustrated in the following extract, during these visits the CEO of NHS England
communicated an expectation (contra to assurances of local autonomy given in national policy …

… in situations of service deconcentration or delegation and … for conceptualising local autonomy
and decision space. For … experience, their room to manoeuvre, their degree of autonomy, is …

… autonomous when it comes to decisions on public school structure. Still, they have to conform
to national … the role of municipalities and their room for manoeuvre, we collected data in a …

… and local autonomy led to frequent discontent among local … In the end, they argued that
the health care insurer could not … gave them little room to maneuver on a local level. Despite …

… In this paper, we present findings from empirical case studies of three decommissioning
processes initiated in the English National Health Service. We apply Levine's (1979, Public …

… In Section 3, we explain our methodology and the data used for the analysis before we …
Yet, our findings also indicate that governments still have room to manoeuvre. First, there is no …

… Through their networks as well as their autonomy, people enlarge [End Page 137] their
minimal room for manoeuvre, they carve out possibilities for a better future, circumventing, …

… of political and financial autonomy. By selecting regions … to the evolution of public healthcare
spending per capita, we … , all patients continued to receive medical care. This AC used …

… England, primary medical services (which account for around 90 per cent of contacts within
the National Health Service) … reforms challenged the tradition of medical autonomy by linking …