The impact of economic rationalism and new public management on health and welfare services : accounting for the gap between social health care policy and practice in two Scottish maternity care units

The administration of welfare in Britain and beyond, in the last thirty years, has seen a series of changes culminating into the new public management (NPM) approach in the delivery of public services. Current literature suggests that traditional collectivist values underlying state welfarism are at...

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Main Author: Lincoln, M. G.
Published: University of Edinburgh 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653919