Is NHS purchasing serious? An American perspective
- 17 January 1998
- Vol. 316 (7126) , 217-220
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.316.7126.217
Abstract
The new Labour government aims to heal these wounds, reduce inequalities, and install a cooperative model of commissioning for health gain.7 But it also risks not addressing why the NHS is still a fragmented, wasteful system. How can this government (not to mention doctors and their patients) avoid being pushed to the wall by clinical funding crises each winter, as Margaret Thatcher was in 1989?Keywords
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