title: Developing policy in an administrative health region.
abstract: The paper presents recent English health and social care legislation as observed by a dentist, in a post which carries no dental remit, but involves responsibility in a Regional Health Authority for a variety of care groups, including mental health, learning disabilities and geriatrics, for interagency working and implementation of legislative changes. It poses a series of questions for dentistry which might arise from these changes, from the perspective of an informed 'outsider' of the dental world working at a strategic level.
authors.affiliation: Priority Services Unit, Mersey Regional Health Authority, Liverpool UK.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Hodge
mesh_terms: D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D004739:England; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D013218:State Dentistry / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*