The National Health Service

Graham Moon and Ian Kendall

Chapter 8 in Managing the New Public Services, 1993, pp 172-187 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The establishment of a National Health Service (NHS) without service-user charges and with the twin goals of minimising inequalities in health and maximising access to health care is understandably associated with the socialist aspirations of the immediate post-war Labour government. However, it has long been argued that a key motivating factor was the less ideological, more technical goal of an efficiently managed health care system (Eckstein, 1958). Although the terminology may have changed, there is therefore a case for seeing a consistency in discussions concerning the management of health services in Britain.

Keywords: National Health Service; General Management; County Council; District Health Authority; Social Service Department (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22646-7_8

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