Decentralizing health services: More local accountability or just more central control?

S Peckham, Mark Exworthy, I Greener, M Powell

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Abstract

This article examines the continuing debate about, and inter-relationship between, the NHS, decentralization and local participation. The focus of the article is the experience of decentralization and participation over the past 25 years and, drawing on a new conceptualization of decentralization, it identifies the extent to which the NHS supports decentralized approaches to participation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)221-228
Number of pages8
JournalPublic Money & Management
Volume25
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2005

Keywords

  • PERFORMANCE
  • GOVERNMENT
  • COUNTRIES

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