Planning, Markets and Hospitals (Hardcover)

Contents:
Part One: Introduction Part Two: Pre-NHS Initiatives: The Limits to Voluntarism 2. Legacies, Donations and Municipal Priorities 3. Roots of Regionalism 4. Wartime Debates on Regionalism Part Three: The Attractions of and Limits to State Planning 1948-1973 5. Negotiations Over the Capital Programme 6. Genesis and Proposals of the Hospital Plan 7. Public Expenditure Restraint and Hospital Policy 8. Medical Dominance and the Sectoral Allocation of Resources Part Four: State Failure? The Death of Planning and the Proposals for Reform 9. Economic Realities: Cuts in Capital Programmes and the Privatisation of Capital Development 10. The Death of Regionalism? The NHS Reforms and Beyond Part Five: 11. Concluding Comments