Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented changes.

Providing an authoritative and accessible overview of the new NHS, the book describes:

• the structures and functions of the new organizations in each of the devolved countries
• the funding of NHS services, education, training and research and resource allocation
• the regulation of the new...