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This chapter explains how the Leeds Regional Hospital Board went about organising its work. The chapter begins with a brief description of the Leeds Region, and then discusses how Board members were appointed. Particular attention is given to the turnover of members and their role. This is followed by an account of the relationship between the Board’s officers. The next section examines the Board’s committee system and the respective role of members and officers. Then an account is given of the way in which hospitals in the Region were organised into groups run by hospital management committees. Finally, the Board’s reaction to the debate on health service reorganisation is discussed. Overall, the chapter provides a context for the more detailed analyses which follow. It also contains data relevant to a number of issues of recurring interest in the NHS, including consensus management, the role of members, and the nature and pace of administrative change.
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This description of the Region is based on that contained in H. Eason, R. V. Clark and W. H. Harper, Hospital Survey: The Hospital Services of the Yorkshire Area (London: HMSO, 1945).
Richard Crossman, A Politician’s View of Health Service Planning (University of Glasgow, 1972) p. 23.
Action Society Trust, Hospitals and the State, IV. Regional Hospital Boards (London: 1957) pp. 11–13.
K. Jones, A History of the Mental Health Services (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972) p. 278.
K. Jones et al., Opening the Door (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975).
R. Klein, ‘Policy making in the National Health Service’, Political Studies, vol. 22 [1] (1974) p. 9.
R. G. S. Brown, Reorganising the National Health Service (Oxford: Blackwell and Robertson, 1979) pp. vii–viii.
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Ham, C. (1981). The Organisation of the Board’s Work. In: Policy-making in the National Health Service. Studies in Social Policy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05525-8_3
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