Comparative health policy: an introduction -- The context of health care -- Funding, provision, and governance -- Setting priorities and allocating resources -- The medical profession -- Beyond the hospital: health care in the home -- Public health -- Understanding health policy comparatively

Purpose – This paper aims to identify variation in the introduction of New Public Management reforms in healthcare and how this variation is related to country‐specific healthcare states. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis uses the introduction of clinical standards in Britain and...

This article presents a cross-national analytical framework for understanding current attempts to reform medical governance – in particular, those by third parties to control the practice of medicine. The framework pays particular attention to the ways in which institutions shape policy...