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Managed Care and Modernization: A Practitioner's Guide [Hardcover]

Sherry Aliotta (Author), David Colin-Thome (Author), David Cochrane (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0335205879 | ISBN-13: 978-0335205875 | Publication Date: October 1, 2001

What is managed care? How does it fit with the current modernization of health services? How should it be applied in particular contexts? "Managed Care and Modernization" is a handbook for healthcare managers and practitioners. Its primary aim is to give practical guidance on applying managed care techniques as part of the modernization of health services. David Cochrane and his contributors contextualize managed care, reviewing current policy and practice, and exploring the major challenges facing health services. Throughout, they are concerned to assist practitioners in service design, delivery and management to adapt the techniques of managed care to their own needs and contexts. They draw on key examples from both American and British experience to indicate how managed care works in practice and how important is its development to the modernization of health services. This book is essential reading for all those involved in healthcare reform.

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David Cochrane is a senior management consultant and Honorary Fellow in Health Services Management at the University of Manchester.

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Open University Press (October 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0335205879
ISBN-13: 978-0335205875
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
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In 1997, the Labour government in the United Kingdom (UK) embarked on an ambitious programme of National Health Service (NHS) modernization. Read the first page

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managed care sector, healthcare inflation, total purchasing pilots, managed care techniques, healthcare workforce, case management outcomes, utilization nurse, workforce plan, modernization agenda, professional demarcations, acute sector, physician behaviour, care pathways, new primary care, acute hospital care, workforce profile, utilization management, outpatient attendances, primary care groups, primary care team, acute beds, managed care model, clinical governance, registered population, hospital utilization

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Department of Health, United States, National Health Service, Sainsbury Centre, White Paper, New Labour, Royal College of Physicians, University of Manchester, Audit Commission, National Plan, Southern California, Case Management Society of America, Performance Assessment Framework, Health Care Financing Administration, Kaiser Permanente, National Audit Office, National Beds Inquiry, American Association of Health Plans, American Psychiatric Association, European Union, British Journal of Psychiatry, Castlefields Health Centre, King's Fund, Mental Health Act, National Service Frameworks

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