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For the most part, the politics of change in the NHS can be understood purely in terms of health policy issues. The Health Service was founded on the assumption that it should have a national rather than a local or regional identity, it has vertical lines of management accountability to the National Health Service Executive (NHSE) and the Department of Health (DoH), its funding is nationally determined and dispensed, and in general it acts as a discrete political structure.
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© 1998 Brian Salter
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Salter, B. (1998). Community Care. In: The Politics of Change in the Health Service. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26224-3_8
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