The Developing discourses of local authority health scrutiny
By: COLEMAN, Anna
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ArticlePublisher: Birmingham, UK : Institute of Local Government Studies, 2007Critical Policy Analysis 1, 2, p. 200-216Abstract: This paper examines discourses emerging in relation to local authority health scrutiny and differences in the definitions of the process itself, its purpose and how it should operate, as used by the different actors and organisations involved. It examines how these are 'taken up', altered or discounted as a wider constituency becomes engaged in the process, this aiding or hindering its implementation. The analysis is placed in the broader context of discourses of modernisation in local government and the National Health Service (NHS). Consideration in given to the influence of legislation, government guidance, local context, individual actors involved and te extent to wich it is possible to identify the emergence of local discourses. The paper draws on empirical research conducted between November 2002 and April 2005 carried out by the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre (NPCRDC) into the early implementation of health scrutiny
This paper examines discourses emerging in relation to local authority health scrutiny and differences in the definitions of the process itself, its purpose and how it should operate, as used by the different actors and organisations involved. It examines how these are 'taken up', altered or discounted as a wider constituency becomes engaged in the process, this aiding or hindering its implementation. The analysis is placed in the broader context of discourses of modernisation in local government and the National Health Service (NHS). Consideration in given to the influence of legislation, government guidance, local context, individual actors involved and te extent to wich it is possible to identify the emergence of local discourses. The paper draws on empirical research conducted between November 2002 and April 2005 carried out by the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre (NPCRDC) into the early implementation of health scrutiny
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