Is Health Care in England Really on the Road to Privatization?

GREAT Britain. National Health Service; MEDICAL care; PRIVATIZATION; THATCHER, Margaret, 1925-2013; BLAIR, Tony, 1953-; PUBLIC spending

The article discusses the debate in Great Britain on the increasing nature of privatization of the country's National Health Service (NHS) which is the core element of the United Kingdom's health care delivery. Topics include how English health care may be on the road to privatization, the literature on policy change and that on health care systems, the policies of Great Britain's prime ministers such as Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair on health care and the proportion of overall health care spending that was government spending.