This book offers a unique analysis of the changing landscape of healthcare reform in Britain, as an example of decentralized reforms across the developed world. The collection is framed by the recognition that healthcare reform has resulted in variegated and decentralized forms of governance.

Mark Bevir is Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Center for British Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University - MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands, and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University, UK.

Justin Waring a Professor of Organisational Sociology and Associate Dean at Nottingham University Business School, where he founded and directed the Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning between 2012-2017, at the University of Nottingham, UK.

1. Decentring Health Policy: Traditions, Narratives, Dilemmas

2. Sedimented Governance in the English National Health Service

3. Governing Professionals in a Decentred State: Case Studies from the English National Health Service

4. Governing Primary Care: Manipulated Emergence, Ambigious Rules and Shifting Incentives

5. Decentring Patient Safety Governance: Case Studies Four English Foundation Trust Hospital Boards

6. Network Contra Network: The Gap between Policy and Practice in the Organisation of Major Trauma Care

7. Patient and Public Involvement in the New NHS: Choice, Voice, and the Pursuit of Legitimacy

8. (De)politicising Hospital Closures in Scottish Health Policy, 2000-2016

9. Congruence and Incoherence: Public Health Governance and Policy in a Devolved UK

10. Welsh Health Governance, or Health Governance in Wales

11. Transforming a Public Good into a Private Bad: Political Legitimacy, Wilful Deceit and the Reform of NHS in England