Exploring 70 Years of the British National Health Service through Anniversary Documents

The British National Health Service

NICE and the British National Health Service

THE INTERPLAY AMONG QUALITY of care, technological innovation, and cost control creates a policy challenge for all health care systems. Improvements in the quality of care can reduce health care costs; for example, better management of chronic conditions may lessen the chance of hospitalization, and new drugs and medical devices might improve the quality and efficiency of care. Often, however, ...

Reorganizing the British National Health Service.

I propose to discuss certain developments in health care arrangements which are planned in the United Kingdom. I will discuss these in terms of Scotland which has a separate health service and a separate health department for which the Secretary of State for Scotland with one of his junior Ministers is responsible to Parliament in Westminster. When the National Health Service was established, S...

The Americanization of the British National Health Service.

The core reform of the British National Health Service (NHS) was the establishment of a quasi market with a split between purchasers and providers. Health authorities and general practitioner (GP) fundholders were to be discriminating purchasers seeking more efficient and responsive services. This market orientation was embedded in a larger context of managerial, allocational, public health, an...

Internal market reform of the British National Health Service.

American perceptions of the British National Health Service: five myths.

This article explores five strong beliefs, or myths, held by Americans about the British National Health Service: (1) the NHS is socialized medicine; (2) widespread rationing occurs; (3) NHS patients have to face long waiting times; (4) the NHS does not offer free choice of provider; and (5) private medicine is taking over. The authors explore how ethnocentricity and American values have shaped...