Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over
seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained have changed significantly …

What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to
do? This important book helps to tackle the most common misunderstandings and …

New Labour has encouraged the development of a 'partnership'between the statutory and
voluntary sectors in which both sides are expected to work together to improve welfare …

This is a new edition of one of the most widely used texts on the history of social policy in
Britain. Covering the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day …

This paper uses the Social Forces Model to investigate the interplay between accounting
change, institutional evolution and organizational transformations in UK healthcare delivery …

'The Luftwaffe was a powerful missionary for the welfare state', wrote AJP Taylor over forty
years ago. 1 Like many historians since, Taylor believed that the Blitz, and mass evacuation …

Sickness insurance companies were developed in Spain by doctors and healthcare
professionals, remaining outside the interests of general insurance companies. Their …

An important goal of policy in the British National Health Service (NHS) is to increase public
involvement in health care governance. In the hospital sector this led in 2003 to the …

This article provides a comparative assessment of the provision of hospital services in
interwar Central Europe. It presents the findings of a project to review the primary and …

This book examines the poor law and attempts at its reform during the Irish revolution (1918–
23) and in the initial decades of Irish independence. This period represented one of the most …