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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2023

The Role of the Policy Process on Health Service Reconfigurations: Evidence, Path Dependency and Framing Comment on "'Attending to History' in Major System Change in Healthcare in England: Specialist Cancer Surgery Service Reconfiguration".

Juan I Baeza

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Juan I BaezaKing's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2032-4507

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Abstract

Historically healthcare services have largely developed on an incremental basis, with various piecemeal changes and some notable policy leaps that illustrate a punctuated equilibrium health policy process. More recently policy-makers have attempted, successfully and unsuccessfully, to reconfigure healthcare services to address perceived problems in the delivery of important services such as stroke, cancer, and trauma. Perry et al provide a welcome addition to research in this area by focusing on the importance of history in a reconfiguration of cancer services in Greater Manchester (GM). Perry et al analyse how and why this configuration was successful after several failed attempts in the past and in this commentary, I want to reflect on the explanatory role health policy analysis can contribute to studying the reconfiguration of healthcare services.

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Delivery of Health CareNeoplasmsEnglandHealth FacilitiesHealth PolicyHealth ServicesHumansEvidenceFramingPath DependencyPolicy ProcessService Reconfiguration

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