This module provides a critical analysis of the development of health policy and the organisation and delivery of health services in Britain since the creation of the NHS in 1948, focussing particularly on more recent developments.
It covers not only the content of health policy (what it aims to achieve) but also the process of policy making (how policies are developed, implemented and evaluated). It aims to identify the main social, economic and political influences that have shaped health policy in Britain, explores where decision making power lies and evaluates attempts to improve quality and performance in the NHS.
The module also considers the future prospects for the NHS and what health care in Britain might look like in the decades to come.
Dates: TBC
This module is not running again in the current academic year. New dates will be available in August of 2019. Please register your interest to be contacted.
Non EEA students can only apply as part of a programme, not as a stand-alone module.
For those students whose first language is not English, the following qualification is also required:
Please note that due to changes in the UKVI's list of SELTs we are no longer able to accept TOEFL as evidence of English language for students who require a CAS as of April 2014.
Justin joined City University London in 2006 and is currently Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research & Policy.
Until 2012 he was co-director of City's Centre for Allied Health Professions (AHP) Research, which carried out research into policy, practice and workforce issues relating to the AHPs, and director of the ...