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The New National Health Service and Community Care

Ian Carruthers (Dorset Health Authority)

Journal of Integrated Care

ISSN: 1476-9018

Article publication date: 1 June 1998

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Abstract

THIS ARTICLE APPRAISES the Government's White Paper, The New NHS: Modern, Dependable, from the perspective of a health authority chief executive, outlining the context for developing health care, the joint challenges of the White Paper and the Green Paper, Our Healthier Nation, the role and potential of primary care groups (in detail), the developing role of the health authority, and the agenda for shaping and improving the delivery of health and health services. It ends with an appraisal of particular implications for community care.

Citation

Carruthers, I. (1998), "The New National Health Service and Community Care", Journal of Integrated Care, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018199800021

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MCB UP Ltd

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