Gwyn Bevan
Biographic Data
| ID | 9367486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwyn Bevan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Bevan |
| SIGNATURE | BEVAN G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 301 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Did Britain Come to This? A century of systemic failures of governance: A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century of varieties of systemic failures in the British state. The book begins and ends by showing how systems of governance explain scandals in NHS hospital…
Performance Measurement of “Knights” and “Knaves”: Differences in Approaches and Impacts in British Countries after Devolution
Policies for publicly-financed health care in Britain have traditionally assumed that all the key players were “knights” who struggled to deliver the best possible services within the constraints of available resources, and hence if they failed to do so, needed extra resources. The Labour government elected in 1997 was confronted with a National Health Service in a parlous state, which following devolution became a challenge for four different te…
Changing paradigms of governance and regulation of quality of healthcare in England
This paper outlines the way in which professional self regulation of quality of healthcare was integral to the creation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, and to the way the NHS was organized for the next 50 years. It describes the crisis in quality that emerged in the late 1990s. It describes the government's initial responses to that crisis, which were to require NHS organizations to implement systems of clinical governance, and crea…
What’s Measured Is What Matters: Targets and Gaming in the English Public Health Care System
In the 2000s, governments in the UK, particularly in England, developed a system of governance of public services that combined targets with an element of terror. This has obvious parallels with the Soviet regime, which was initially successful but then collapsed. Assumptions underlying governance by targets represent synecdoche (taking a part to stand for a whole); and that problems of measurement and gaming do not matter. We examine the robustn…
The future public funding of family dispute resolution services
This article employs data gathered in the course of monitoring the Legal Services Commission's family mediation pilot in order to review the arrangements for public funding of lawyer and mediation services for separating couples and to review systems of case allocation between those services. The authors argue for a model ('finance by capitation, with gatekeepers') which is borrowed from health care and which has been fine-tuned in light of rando…
Cash Limits and Public Sector Pay
What’s Measured Is What Matters: Targets and Gaming in the English Public Health Care System
In the 2000s, governments in the UK, particularly in England, developed a system of governance of public services that combined targets with an element of terror. This has obvious parallels with the Soviet regime, which was initially successful but then collapsed. Assumptions underlying governance by targets represent synecdoche (taking a part to stand for a whole); and that problems of measurement and gaming do not matter. We examine the robustn…
Cash Limits and Public Sector Pay
Performance Measurement of “Knights” and “Knaves”: Differences in Approaches and Impacts in British Countries after Devolution
Policies for publicly-financed health care in Britain have traditionally assumed that all the key players were “knights” who struggled to deliver the best possible services within the constraints of available resources, and hence if they failed to do so, needed extra resources. The Labour government elected in 1997 was confronted with a National Health Service in a parlous state, which following devolution became a challenge for four different te…
How Did Britain Come to This? A century of systemic failures of governance: A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century of varieties of systemic failures in the British state. The book begins and ends by showing how systems of governance explain scandals in NHS hospital…
The future public funding of family dispute resolution services
This article employs data gathered in the course of monitoring the Legal Services Commission's family mediation pilot in order to review the arrangements for public funding of lawyer and mediation services for separating couples and to review systems of case allocation between those services. The authors argue for a model ('finance by capitation, with gatekeepers') which is borrowed from health care and which has been fine-tuned in light of rando…
Cash Limits and Public Sector Pay
The future public funding of family dispute resolution services
This article employs data gathered in the course of monitoring the Legal Services Commission's family mediation pilot in order to review the arrangements for public funding of lawyer and mediation services for separating couples and to review systems of case allocation between those services. The authors argue for a model ('finance by capitation, with gatekeepers') which is borrowed from health care and which has been fine-tuned in light of rando…
What’s Measured Is What Matters: Targets and Gaming in the English Public Health Care System
In the 2000s, governments in the UK, particularly in England, developed a system of governance of public services that combined targets with an element of terror. This has obvious parallels with the Soviet regime, which was initially successful but then collapsed. Assumptions underlying governance by targets represent synecdoche (taking a part to stand for a whole); and that problems of measurement and gaming do not matter. We examine the robustn…
Changing paradigms of governance and regulation of quality of healthcare in England
This paper outlines the way in which professional self regulation of quality of healthcare was integral to the creation of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, and to the way the NHS was organized for the next 50 years. It describes the crisis in quality that emerged in the late 1990s. It describes the government's initial responses to that crisis, which were to require NHS organizations to implement systems of clinical governance, and crea…
Performance Measurement of “Knights” and “Knaves”: Differences in Approaches and Impacts in British Countries after Devolution
Policies for publicly-financed health care in Britain have traditionally assumed that all the key players were “knights” who struggled to deliver the best possible services within the constraints of available resources, and hence if they failed to do so, needed extra resources. The Labour government elected in 1997 was confronted with a National Health Service in a parlous state, which following devolution became a challenge for four different te…
How Did Britain Come to This? A century of systemic failures of governance: A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance
If every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century of varieties of systemic failures in the British state. The book begins and ends by showing how systems of governance explain scandals in NHS hospital…
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