Purpose: This article explores to what extent the long debate in England over the funding of long-term care (LTC) has involved learning from abroad. Design/methodology/approach: It draws on Mossberger and Wolman’s (2003) framework which proposes criteria for assessing policy transfer as a form...

New Labour argues that its new NHS will achieve the traditional goal of fairness using the modern NHS means of partnership and co-operation. The authors examine the issue of reducing inequalities in health using the framework of policy, process and resource streams. While the policy stream is a...

This article examines the continuing debate about, and inter-relationship between, the NHS, decentralization and local participation. The focus of the article is the experience of decentralization and participation over the past 25 years and, drawing on a new conceptualization of...

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy....