The New Primary Care [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457450903321
• Autore: Dowling Bernard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Maidenhead, : McGraw-Hill Education, 2007
• ISBN: 1-280-95132-X; 0-335-22488-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GlendinningCaroline
• Disciplina: 362.10941
• Soggetti: Primary care (Medicine); Health Policy; Health Care Reform; Primary Health Care; Public Policy; Comprehensive Health Care; Delivery of Health Care; Health Planning; Social Control Policies; Health Care Economics and Organizations; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Patient Care Management; Policy; Health Services Administration; Health Care; Social Control, Formal; Sociology; Social Sciences; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and figures; ; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Part 01; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Part 02; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Chapter 08; Chapter 09; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Part 03; Chapter 13; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 'modernization' of the NHS is at the heart of the UK government's policies for public sector services. This modernization programme represents the most radical and ambitious restructuring of the NHS since its inception in 1948. The new Primary Care Groups and Trusts (PCG/Ts) are the main organizational mechanism for delivering the modernization agenda and are therefore key to the success or otherwise of these reforms. To date there has been no comprehensive evaluation of how PCG/Ts have been performing in implementing the modernization programme; this book fills that important gap in knowl