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The ideal of health care provision based on prior assessment of health needs has long been aspired to by health planners. The Acheson Report (London Health Planning Consortium, 1981) laid the foundation for a radical approach to public health, and in 1989 the government set out the basis for a greatly altered national health service in which the clear identification of the population’s health care needs and the channelling of resources to meet those needs emerged as complex and challenging tasks.
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Fawcett-Henesy, A. (1997). Inner-City Changes: Health Care Services in Britain’s Inner Cities. In: Hennessy, D. (eds) Community Health Care Development. Community Health Care Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13906-4_6
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