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Who Is the NHS For?

Reva Berman Brown (University of Essex)
Sean McCartney (University of Essex)
Louise Bell (Southend Health Care NHS Trust)
Sharon Scaggs (Thameside Community Healthcare NHS Trust)

Journal of Management in Medicine

ISSN: 0268-9235

Article publication date: 1 August 1994

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Abstract

The immediate, common sense answer to the question, “Who is the NHS for?” would obviously be, “The patients who use it”. This may well be the fundamental purpose of the NHS, yet it would appear that differing views of how this is to be achieved contribute to a misreading between stakeholders of each others′ remit. The different positions taken by the two most important NHS stakeholders, the professional clinicians and the administrative managers, affect their definitions of, and therefore their attitudes to their own contribution to the purpose of the NHS. Suggests that before priorities in health care can be considered and discussed, let alone be set, consensual agreement needs to be reached concerning the views of professional clinicians and managers of ways of achieving their vision of who the NHS is for.

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Berman Brown, R., McCartney, S., Bell, L. and Scaggs, S. (1994), "Who Is the NHS For?", Journal of Management in Medicine, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 62-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/02689239410068570

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