A framework for local health service control.
In a major speech recently, Dr. David Owen, former minister of health, argued the case for a genuine localist approach to NHS organisation. He outlines here the advantages of separately elected health authorities financed by local income tax. Under these new arrangements the service, he believes, would be better able to meet the challenge of the cinderella areas and central government could revert to its rightful role of upholding standards and broadly planning resources.
D005380:Financing, Government; D006291:Health Policy; D007183:Income Tax; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom