British Conservative Party health reforms of the 1980s and 1990s: ideology or inevitable?
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.
Casey
Jonathan P
JP
Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside CH49 5PE, United Kingdom. jonathan.casey@whnt.nhs.uk
Balshaw-Greer
Amanda
A
D018166:Health Care Reform; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D011057:Politics; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom