Commissioning for health improvement following the 2012 health and social care reforms in England: what has changed?
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Commissioning for health improvement following the 2012 health and social care reforms in England: what has changed?
BACKGROUND The wide-ranging program of reforms brought about by the Health and Social Care Act (2012) in England fundamentally changed the operation of the public health system, moving responsibility for the commissioning and delivery of services from the National Health Service to locally elected councils and a new national public health agency. This paper explores the ways in which the reform...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4122-1