National Health Service in UK Law
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In what sense a National Health Service?
Under the recent Conservative and current Labour Governments it appears that the NHS is moving in two different directions at once. Some commentators claimed that the national character of the heal...
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SHOULD THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE HAVE AN INFORMATION STRATEGY?
The National Health Service (NHS) Review committed the NHS to the development of sophisticated information management processes and to the creation of a massive information technology infrastructur...
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Seeing stars: human resources performance indicators in the National Health Service
Purpose: This paper examines the functioning of performance ratings of the human resources (HR) function of National Health Service (NHS). In particular, it looks at the star ratings system and the...
- The National Health Service
- The Tripartite National Health Service
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Explaining Change in the National Health Service: Corporatism, Closure and Democratic Capitalism
The National Health Service was a political settlement based on meso corporatism. That settlement was destabilised by economic competition in markets and political competition in democratic arenas....
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Competition and Costs: Evidence from Competitive Tendering in the Scottish National Health Service
This paper estimates the impact of competitive tendering on cleaning costs in Scottish National Health Service hospitals. Unlike previous studies, which have relied on cross‐sectional data, a five‐...
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Nurses in the National Health Service: Reflections on Recent Industrial Unrest
The industrial unrest during January 1988 among nurses in the UK National Health Service raised the matter of the attitude and behaviour of that group of employees towards industrial action. In som...
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Construction procurement strategies of national health service in the UK: A critical review
In the UK healthcare sector, funding and provision of public care facilities has been primarily the responsibility of government through the National Health Service (NHS). After decades of under-in...
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Finding a cure? Pay in England's National Health Service
This paper explores the consequences of the introduction by National Health Service (NHS) trusts (i.e. hospitals) of their own pay systems. It is based on case studies of ten NHS trusts and involve...
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