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Health care - private corporations or public service? The Americanisation of the NHS
— third report of the Health Policy Network | | Corporate Author | Health Policy Network, National Health Service Consultants' Association; NHS Support Federation; Public Health Alliance |
| Publisher | NHS Consultants' Association, Banbury, 1996 |
| Pages | 40 pp |
| Source | NHS Consultants' Association, Hill House, Great Bourton, Banbury, Oxon OX17 1QH. |
| Keywords | National Health Service ; Health services ; Policy ; Finance [care] ; Comparison ; United States of America ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | This report is written against a background of widespread concern among members of the public and NHS staff regarding the Conservative government's policies towards the health service. It compares the public service model of the NHS with the market and corporate orientation of the United States (US) model. It describes the basic features of care in the US, and the significance of widespread commercial sickness insurance, which is contrasted with the British experience of BUPA. Ten features of health care in the US and UK are compared and contrasted: overall cost; some other resources; who is covered; access to care; the outcomes of treatment; planning; the range of services; administrative overheads; litigation; and fraud. Ways are examined in which the NHS has been, is still being, and is likely further to be privatised, ranging from the restriction and reduction of NHS services, such as dentistry, to the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The report - written some months before the 1997 General Election - calls for a vigorous and informed public debate about health care. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980210219 B |
| Classmark | L4: L: QAD: QC: 48: 7T: 8 |
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