Credit crunch health care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly Funded Health Services

The credit crunch continues to threaten publicly-funded health care. In this book, world-leading health economist Cam Donaldson defends National Health Service-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing the issues of value for money - in particular, what has been achieved, how much more can be achieved through health care reform, and serious priority setting. The universal issues addressed in the book will be of interest to academics as well as health care professionals.