title: British Conservative Party health reforms of the 1980s and 1990s: ideology or inevitable?
abstract: In this article we will seek to explore the political ideology that launched the Conservative Party to power under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This event in 1979 was to have far-reaching implications for health care in Britain, arguably cumulating in a breach of a founding principle of the British National Health Service, namely, all-inclusiveness.
authors.affiliation: Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside CH49 5PE, United Kingdom. jonathan.casey@whnt.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Casey
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Balshaw-Greer
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D011057:Politics; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom