Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

List of tables, figures and boxes

pp vii-viii

Glossary

pp ix-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xviii

Foreword

pp xix-xx

Section A - Health reforms in context

pp 1-2

one - Evaluating the impact of NHS reforms – policy, process and power

pp 3-16

two - Orders of change in the ordered changes in the NHS

pp 17-36

Section B - National health policy

pp 37-38

three - NHS finances under the Coalition

pp 39-64

four - Did NHS productivity increase under the Coalition government?

pp 65-86

five - The central management of the English NHS

pp 87-104

six - An argument lost by both sides? The Parliamentary debate over the 2010 NHS White Paper

pp 105-124

seven - UK-wide health policy under the Coalition

pp 125-146

Section C - Commissioning and service provision

pp 147-148

eight - Clinically led commissioning: past, present and future?

pp 149-170

nine - ‘Much ado about nothing’? Pursuing the ‘holy grail’ of health and social care integration under the Coalition

pp 171-190

ten - Public health: unchained or shackled?

pp 191-210

eleven - Provider plurality and supply-side reform

pp 211-232

twelve - Achieving equity in health service commissioning

pp 233-254

Section D - Governance

pp 255-256

thirteen - Setting the workers free? Managers in the (once again) reformed NHS

pp 257-278

fourteen - Health and Wellbeing Boards: The new system stewards?

pp 279-300

fifteen - Blowin’ in the wind: The involvement of people who use services, carers and the public in health and social care

pp 301-322

sixteen - ‘Groundhog Day’: the Coalition government’s quality and safety reforms

pp 323-342

seventeen - A view from abroad: a New Zealand perspective on the English NHS health reforms

pp 343-362

Section E - Conclusions

pp 363-364

eighteen - Never again? A retrospective and prospective view of English health reforms

pp 365-380