<title/> Choice has re-emerged as a key theme in UK public policy. Drawing on a major empirical study of choice in NHS London, the authors report on some important policy implications. First, NHS as well as private sector providers responded to pro choice incentives. Second, the supply-side response was...

Choice has re-emerged as a key theme in UK public policy. Drawing on a major empirical study of choice in NHS London, the authors report on some important policy implications. First, NHS as well as private sector providers responded to pro choice incentives. Second, the supply-side response was...

The use of contracts is vital to market transactions. The introduction of market reforms in health care in the UK and other developed countries twenty years ago meant greater use of contracts. In the UK, health care contracting was widely researched in the 1990s. Yet, despite the changing policy...

1. Introduction and rationale -- 2. Professional dominance theory restated -- 3. The shock of the new public management : UK health care organizations transformed? -- 4. Network governance reforms : a post-NPM-reform narrative? -- 5. Governmentality and health care organizations -- 6....

The central purpose of this paper is to review higher education policy documents of the UKgovernment. For the analysis of recent and changing patterns of HE steering mechanisms, wewill first refer to the salient White Paper "Higher Education: a New Framework" publishedin 1991. However, the main...