Britain's New Labour government has consolidated its reform of the National Health Service with an ambitious NHS Plan that links investment in staff, new buildings, and new technology to delivery of a modernization agenda combining consumerist and public health agendas. The fundamental principles of the NHS are preserved, but within a regulatory structure of a managed market. The author outlines the changes proposed and the possible responses of different stakeholders.
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