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The Transparency of Health Policy Decisions

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Transparency in Public Policy

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To what extent are decisions about British health policy transparent? Do members of the public, including patients, have access to information to understand what choices are made and the underlying rationale? Recognizing that there are other aspects of health care delivery and public health programs in which transparency is also important, this chapter examines the most important decision am in British health care, the allocation of resources and health care services. In the cash-limited health care delivery system of the National Health Service (NHS), the process by which government official and health care providers determine which services to provide, and which to ration, is of critical public concern.

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  1. Steven H. Woolf
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Neal D. Finkelstein

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Woolf, S.H. (2000). The Transparency of Health Policy Decisions. In: Finkelstein, N.D. (eds) Transparency in Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977583_2

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