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Who Decides Who Decides?: Enabling Choice, Equity, Access, Improved Performance and Patient Guaranteed Care

Who Decides Who Decides?: Enabling Choice, Equity, Access, Improved Performance and Patient Guaranteed Care

by JohnSpiers (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

This book makes the case for 'ordinary' people to get the health and social care which the state has promised them for over 60 years but which has not been delivered. What is the case for choice? How can choice be made real for the individual? What impact can genuine, individually financially-empowered choice have on effective funding, purchasing, delivery, and outcomes? How can a genuine market grow and thrive? How can the quest for choice include the large numbers of NHS and social care staff on whom success depends? The book urges individual financial empowerment, through a life-long health savings account for all NHS and social services.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 258
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
Published: 25 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 1846192765
ISBN 13: 9781846192760

Media Reviews
'John Spiers' detailed yet fluent book demonstrates how we can achieve better healthcare for all by harnessing the one economic system that we know is effective in allocating resources efficiently and delivering individuals and families the goods and services they need and want. As well as being of obvious value to those involved in the policy process, this book will be very useful in the world of medical and management education (particularly on MBA courses for those involved in hospital management, and on MA and MSc courses in public sector management) and also for students and teachers of economics-related courses.'From the Foreword by Professor Philip Booth, Institute of Economic Affairs'John Spiers has the gift of presenting complex ideas clearly. This makes this book a challenging offering to current public policy debates.' Professor Michael Connolly, University of Glamorgan 'Wonderful read. As John Spiers shows in this sprightly,erudite, concise book, when you ask the right questions, you get the right answers. He asks what a patient-centred health care system should look like and comes up with novel and pragmatic answers.' Professor Regina E Herzlinger, Harvard Business School 'This detailed and robust publication will help you unravel the political, social and economic influences that shape and guide healthcare provision... Offers erudite analysis that provides food for thought' NURSING STANDARD 'The discussion in this book is of considerable importance...makes a strong and important case for helping individuals make choices, based on the provision of information with which to make those choices...This book provides compelling information on the shortcomings of Britain's National Health System and will give those outside of Britain pause to consider whether this system is one that should be emulated...the need to fix a broken system is critical. This book provides an important set of ideas and policies that have implications beyond the British healthcare system.' DOODY'S REVIEW SERVICE A very interesting book...will be a useful addition to academic libraries and also as a resource in local clinical practice areas. Journal of Community Nursing
Author Bio
Visiting Professor, School of Humanities and Social Studies, University of Glamorgan.Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and Member, Advisory Council, Reform.Former Chairman, Brighton Health Authority, Brighton Health Care NHS Trust, and former Chairman of The Patients Association.