Which champions, which people? Public and user involvement in health care.

Harrison, Steve and Mort, Maggie (1998) Which champions, which people? Public and user involvement in health care. Social Policy and Administration, 32 (1). pp. 60-70. ISSN 1467-9515

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Abstract

This paper concerns two practices, public consultation and user involvement, whose adoption has been urged upon the UK National Health Service in recent years. Public consultation is a local attempt to seek the views of a broad constituency of persons. User involvement is a local attempt to include organized groups of service users in the planning, and occasionally the management, of such services. The paper has four objectives. First, it locates the topic in the context of several related current debates. Second, it outlines the main findings of a recent empirical study of public consultation as they relate to the above debates. Third, it summarizes the relevant findings of an empirical study of user involvement. Finally, it examines these two practices as "technologies of legitimation" which can be seen as a means by which managerial legitimacy is maintained in the context of an increasingly pluralistic policy arena.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Social Policy and Administration
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? public consultation • user consultation • legitimation • health care politicspublic administrationdevelopmentsociology and political sciencer medicine (general) ??
ID Code:
20867
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Deposited On:
02 Dec 2008 15:57
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Published
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