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Empowerment in welfare markets
Author(s) -
North Nancy
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
health and social care in the community
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.984
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1365-2524
pISSN - 0966-0410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2524.1993.tb00208.x
Subject(s) - empowerment , social welfare , project commissioning , business , welfare , boosting (machine learning) , government (linguistics) , politics , public relations , process (computing) , social care , public economics , publishing , market economy , economics , economic growth , political science , nursing , medicine , operating system , linguistics , philosophy , machine learning , computer science , law
The NHS and community care reforms have been promoted as a means of boosting efficiency and making services more responsive to clients. The government has urged health and social services to establish processes by which clients’ views are identified but with no firm requirement that these are prioritized within the commissioning process. Whilst it is expected that the NHS and local authorities will respond to government exhortations, this paper suggests that there are compelling political, financial and organizational reasons why the opportunities for power sharing may differ between the two types of authority.