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The establishment of a National Health Service (NHS) without service-user charges and with the twin goals of minimising inequalities in health and maximising access to health care is understandably associated with the socialist aspirations of the immediate post-war Labour government. However, it has long been argued that a key motivating factor was the less ideological, more technical goal of an efficiently managed health care system (Eckstein, 1958). Although the terminology may have changed, there is therefore a case for seeing a consistency in discussions concerning the management of health services in Britain.
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© 1993 Graham Moon and Ian Kendall
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Moon, G., Kendall, I. (1993). The National Health Service. In: Farnham, D., Horton, S. (eds) Managing the New Public Services. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22646-7_8
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