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The changing face of the English National Health Service: new providers, markets and morality

Author(s) -

Lucy Frith

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

british medical bulletin

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.08

H-Index - 112

eISSN - 1471-8391

pISSN - 0007-1420

DOI - 10.1093/bmb/ldw034

Subject(s) - public relations , bioethics , ideology , health care , face (sociological concept) , power (physics) , empirical evidence , political science , medicine , sociology , politics , law , social science , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics

One significant change in the English National Health Service (NHS) has been the introduction of market mechanisms. This review will explore the following questions: should we have markets in healthcare? What is the underlying philosophy of introducing more market mechanisms into the NHS? What are the effects of this and does it change the NHS beyond anything Bevan might have imagined in 1948?

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