Machine derived contents note: Health System Reform and Policy Implementation -- Market Reforms in the United Kingdom -- Outcomes of Market Reform in the United Kingdom and Labour's New Health Policies -- Market Experimentation within Swedish Health System Reform -- Reform Outcomes in Sweden and the Emerging Mix of Public and Private Care -- Regulated Competition in the Netherlands -- Reform Outcomes and New Policy Trends in the Netherlands
Summary
This comprehensive and comparative study of health service change focuses on the influence of health professionals on the process and shape of change. The book examines the development and implementation of national health system reorganizations in the United Kingdom, Sweden and The Netherlands. Separate chapters examine the development, implementation and outcomes of reform. The author's research highlights a crucial link in the chain of implementation: the occupational and organizational consequences of reform for physicians and other health professionals and the way physicians influence pro