Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy



Public Money & Management

Volume 25, Number 4

August 2005

Contents

DEBATES

British Art Versus European Technocracy-Or Government Versus State?
Christopher Pollitt

Murphy's Laws: A Key Explanatory Tool for Public Sector Disputes in the UK
Michael Horsman

Recovery and Renewal-The New NHS
Ken Jarrold

THEME: THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE 1980-2005

Editorial
David J. Hunter

Performance Measurement in Health Care: History, Challenges and Prospects
Peter C. Smith

Decentralizing Health Services: More Local Accountability or Just More Central Control?
Stephen Peckham, Mark Exworthy, Ian Greener and Martin Powell

From Sickness to Health? Public Health in England
Rob Baggott

From Plan to Market: A Comparison of Health and Old Age Care Policies in the UK and Sweden
Marianna Fotaki and Alan Boyd

Under Strain? Exploring the Troubled Relationship between Health and Social Care
Caroline Glendinning, Bob Hudson and Robin Means

NON-THEME ARTICLES

Setting Public Service Outcome Targets: Lessons from Local Public Service Agreements
George A. Boyne and Jennifer Law

IN THIS ISSUE:

THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
PUBLIC HEALTH
SOCIAL CARE
PUBLIC SERVICE OUTCOME TARGETS
PUBLIC SECTOR DISPUTES