by Jonathan Montgomery (1997)
The main objective of this book is to provide a readable, comprehensive and accessible outline of the law governing health care. Its avoidance of excessive use of legal jargon, together with its groundbreaking emphasis on health and health care rather than merely medical law and ethics make the book particularly suitable for use by health professionals. However, it is fully referenced to legal materials and will also appeal to students and practitioners of law. The book sets out the law clearly and succinctly, examining the many areas of dispute over its interpretation but maintaining a non-partisan position.
Sheila Leatherman, Kim Sutherland
A collection of charts arranged in six quality domains (effectiveness, access, capacity, safety, patient-centredness, disparities) that aims to provide an accessible overview of the quality of healthcare in the UK.
W. J. M. Mackenzie
Professor Mackenzie's book is an important contribution, possibly unique to the general debate, for despite the author's diffidence in describing it as 'primarily a conceptual and analytical study rather than a practical one', by discussing certain key questions from the point of view of a political scientist, he illuminates as never before the contradictions and mythologies of an institution which has a special niche in British social history and in which there is an almost inordinate pride among the population at large.
Michael Purdy and David Banks
Health and Exclusion is an examination of those policies and practices of exclusion currently experienced by health 'customers' in the UK. The authors challenge whether New Labour policies sufficiently address the inequalities in the system.
Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee and Anne Mills
Reviews the progress in five countries towards the goals set out in `Good health and low cost' - London : Rockefeller Foundation, 1985 ; and what happened to others viewed as successes 25 years ago -- [foreword, ix].