Hospital Policy in the United Kingdom: Its Development, Its Future

ISBN-13: 9781560009788 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str.

Anthony Harrison; Sally Prentice

Opis

Harrison and Prentice aim to provide a source of reference and reflection for those who are concerned with the planning of hospitals themselves or who are concerned with the health care delivery system as a whole. The authors set out a detailed framework for analyzing hospital services in relation to other providers, based on clinical quality, costs of provision, and access. The book also contains a series of recommendations for action.

Spis treści

1: The development of hospital policy; 2: Why general hospitals?; 3: Systems of hospitals; 4: Hospitals and other providers; 5: Scale, scope and clinical quality; 6: Scale, scope and costs; 7: Access; 8: The demand for hospital services; 9: The supply of hospital services; 10: Access: prospects and policies; 11: What should be done?; Annex; Bibliographical notes

O autorze

Anthony John Harrison, Sally Prentice