Health Policy

Main research interests are:  evaluation of health policy and health reform in England, the UK, Europe and the USA; the politics of health and public policy

Has published ten books on health politics and policy; public policy; political economy; and political theory.  Many academic journal articles;  public policy magazine and media articles.

  ‘NHS Confidential: Implementation, or… how great expectations in Whitehall  are dashed in Stoke-on-Trent’, in Exworthy, M et al (Eds.), Shaping Health Policy: Case Study Methods and Analysis, Policy Press, Bristol, 2011 

 ‘A New Beginning for Health Policy? The Continuing Story of Health and Welfare in the USA’, in The USA and Canada, London, Taylor Francis, 2011

 ‘The NHS After New Labour – Healthier than New Labour?’ in Casey, T (Ed), The Blair Legacy, Palgrave Macmilla, Basingstoke and New York, 2009.

‘Health Policy’, (keynote chapter in) International  Encyclopaedia of Public Health, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008

  ‘New Labour’s Health Policy: Assessing the Blair Years’, in Powell, M (ed),  Modernising the Welfare State,  Bristol, Policy Press,2008

‘Commissioning in the English NHS’, British Medical Journal,  April 15, 2010

 

 

Books:

New Labour’s State of Health: Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS

Ashgate, 2006  (widely and positively reviewed, nationally and internationally)

 

 

           World, Class, Britain: Political Economy, Political Theory and British Politics

Macmillan, 2000

 

Competition and Planning in the NHS: The Consequences of the Reforms

Stanley Thornes, 1998 - wholly rewritten 2^nd Edition of Chapman and Hall, 1992, see below. (Thornes, now Nelson Thornes, acquired Chapman and Hall list.) Book reports on research funded by Nuffield Trust (Grant to Paton, 1993 – 1996)

 

Health Policy and Management: the Healthcare Agenda in a British Political Context, Chapman and Hall, 1996

 

Ethics and Politics: Theory and Practice

Avebury, 1992

 

Competition and Planning in the NHS: The Danger of Unplanned Markets (1^st Ed.), Chapman and Hall, 1992

 

Case Studies in Health Policy and Management (with Stephen Bach)

Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1991 : book reports on research funded by Nuffield Trust (Grant to Paton, 1988 – 1990)

 

U.S. Health Politics: Public Policy and Political Theory

Avebury, 1990

 

The Policy of Resource Allocation and its Ramifications

Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1985

 

Books from European Union Research Projects:

 

The Impact of Market Forces on Health Systems

European Health Management Association for the European Union, Directorate Health and Consumer Protection, 2000

(written by Paton as Scientific Director of EU-funded project)

 

The European Union and Health Services: The Impact of the Single European Market on Member States (Edited by Berman, P., Busse, R., and Wismar, M.), Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2002: Paton as Scientific Director of EU-funded project and key author

 

 

Articles in Books and Refereed Journals

 

          ‘NHS Confidential: Implementation, or… how great expectations in Whitehall

            are dashed in Stoke-on-Trent’, in Exworthy, M et al (Eds.), Shaping Health

            Policy: Case Study Methods and Analysis, Policy Press, Bristol, 2011 

 

‘A New Beginning for Health Policy? The Continuing Story of Health and Welfare in the USA’, in The USA and Canada, London, Taylor Francis, 2011

 

‘The NHS After New Labour – Healthier than New Labour?’ in Casey, T (Ed), The Blair Legacy, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2009

‘Health Policy’, (keynote chapter in) International  Encyclopaedia of Public Health, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008

 

 ‘New Labour’s Health Policy: Assessing the Blair Years’, in Powell, M (ed),  Modernising the Welfare State,  Bristol, Policy Press,2008

 

 

            ‘The Politics of NHS Deficits and NHS Re-form’ in Hann A (ed), Health

            Policy and Politics, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007

 

‘He who rides a tiger can never dismount: six myths about health reform in England’, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 21, 2 (2007)

 

International Affairs Forum, 2007

‘Tony Blair – a success as Prime Minister?’

(Responses) [online]

Available from:

http://www.ia-forum.org/Content/ForumContent.cfm?ForumTopicID=12

 

‘Visible Hand or Invisible Fist? Choice in the English NHS’, Journal of Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2,3 (Summer 2007);   ‘Final Reply to Respondents’, Journal of Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2,3 (2007);

 

‘Primary Care Organisations and Health Systems’, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 22, 1, (2007), pp 22-24;

 

 ‘In a Complicated State: Health and Welfare Policy in the USA’ in The USA and Canada, London, Europa (Taylor Francis), 2009 and annually since 1989

 

Anti-Social Science: Social Science as Oxymoron; Journal of the Humanities, 2,3 (Autumn 2006);

 

‘The Changing Political Economy of the NHS’, Public Finance and Management, 6,4 ( 2006)

 

‘Medical Leadership: Doctors, the State and Prospects for Improvement’ in John Edmonstone (ed) Clinical Leadership: A Book of Readings, Chichester, Kingsham, 2005 (with Whitney D, and Cowpe J);

 

‘The State of the Health Care System’ in Dawson S and Sausman C, Future Health Organisations and Systems, Basingstoke, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005;

 

‘Health’ in MacIver D, (ed), Political Issues in the World Today, Manchester University Press, 2004;

 

‘Checks and Cheques: Evaluating New Labour’s Health Policy’ in Martin Powell (ed), Evaluating New Labour’s Welfare Reforms, Bristol, Policy Press, 2002;

 

‘The State in Health:  Global Capitalism, Conspiracy, Cock-up and Competitive Change in the NHS’, in Public Policy and Administration, Vol 16, No 4, (Winter, 2001);

 

‘New Labour, New Health Policy?’, in Hann A (ed) Analysing Health Policy, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000;

 

‘Mobile Medics?  The Mobility of Doctors in the European Economic Area’, Health Policy, 54, 45-64, (2000) (with Ong BN and Jinks C);

 

‘Analysis of Market Reforms in Europe’,  Eurohealth, Vol 6, No 4, Autumn, (2000);

 

‘New Labour, New Health Policy?’, in Hann A (Ed.), Analysing Health Policy, Ashgate Press, 2000;

 

‘Commentary on “Intellectual Mercenaries and the Public Interest”, Policy and Politics, Vol 27, No. 4 (1999);

 

‘Labour’s Health Policy: The New Healthcare State’, in Powell M (Ed.), New Labour, New Welfare State?, Bristol Policy Press, 1999;

 

‘Necessary conditions for a socialist health service’, Health Care Analysis, Vol 5, No. 3, 1997;

 

‘The Politics and Economics of Healthcare Reform’ in Health Policy, National Schemes and Globalizing Markets in Western Societies (Eds Altenstetter, C., and Björkman, J.) London, Macmillan and New York, St Martin’s, 1996;

 

‘The Clinton Plan’, in American Politics Today (Ed. P Davies and F Waldstein), Manchester University Press, 1996;

 

‘Health Policy: the analytics and politics of attempted reform’ in Developments in American Politics (Ed G. Peele et al), Macmillan, London, 1994;

 

‘Planning and Markets in Health Services’, in Quasi-Markets in the Public Sector, Bristol, Policy Press, 1994;

 

‘Healthcare Management - theory and emerging practice’ (with K. Lee) Management for Hospital Doctors (eds. Burrows et al), London, Butterworth Heinemann, 1994;

 

‘Devolution and Centralism in the NHS’, Social Policy and Administration,  April-June 1993;

 

‘The NHS - Where is it going?’ Critical Public Health, 1st Quarter, 1992 (Vol.3.No.1);

 

‘The Economics of Screening’, Screening and Surveillance in General Practice, London, Churchill Livingstone, 1992;

 

‘Health Policy in the U.S.A. in the 1990s’, Political Issues in America : The 1990s (Eds. P. J. Davies and F. Waldstein), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1991; 3^rd edition (new chapter), 1996;

 

‘Comparative Approaches to Public Health’ (with K. Lee and N. Ikegami), Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 2nd edition, (Eds. W. Holland, R. Detels and G. Knox), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990; 3rd edition (new chapter), 1996;

 

‘The Prime Minister’s Review of the National Health Service and the 1989 White Paper, Working for Patients’, Social Policy Review 1989-90 (Eds. Nick Manning and Clare Ungerson), London, Longman, 1990, pp.118-141;

 

‘The Office of Economic Opportunity in the U.S.A.’, Social Policy and Administration,    Vol.23 No.1, (May 1989), pp.92-99;

 

‘Paradigm of U.S. Politics : One Which Embraces the Many’, Politics, Vol.9 No.1, 1989;

 

‘British and American Health Policy: Recent Lessons from One System to the Other; International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 1, 5 (1986)

pp 357-373.

 

Articles in Medical and Healthcare Journals (Very Selective)

 

               Articles in Public Servant (www.publicservice.co.uk) throughout 2011, including December 2011 ‘The Health Bill : an albatross around the government’s neck’

 

             ‘Radical Change or Groundhog Day?’, Public Servant, November 2010

             

             ‘The future for Labour’, Public Servant, August 2010

 

            ‘The Coalition and Health Policy: Too liberal a dose of conservatism?’,

             Public Servant, July 2010

 

           

           ‘Commissioning in the English NHS’,  BMJ, April 15, 2010    

            ‘We too can eschew UK-style rationing’, BMJ, April 29, 2010

 

            ‘What the NHS Can Learn from Stafford’, Public Servant, April 2010

 

            ‘Cutting the Bull****: Health Policy and Human Resources’, Public Servant,

             March 2010  

 

 

            ‘Griffiths after 25 years’, Health Service Journal (‘Speak Out’),

             November 12, 2009

            

            ‘Going Private?, Hospital, 2006, No 2

‘Open Letter to Patricia Hewitt’, Health Service Journal, May 19 2005

 

‘Open Space’ (various), Health Service Journal, 2004-5

 

‘Analysis of Market Reforms in Europe’, Eurohealth 6,4 : 30, 2000

 

 ‘Counting the Costs (Assessing the NJS Reforms)’, Health Service Journal, Vol. 106, 27th August 1997 (Report of research on the NHS reforms)

                              

‘Open letter to Frank Dobson’, Health Service Journal, Vol.106, 8th May 1997

 

‘Lessons Learned the Hard Way’, Health Service Journal, Vol. 106, p.20, 26th September 1996

 

‘Labour Policy (Change as good as a rest?)’, Health Service Journal, Vol. 105, No. 5460, pp.24-25, 6th July 1995

 

‘Present dangers and future threats: Some perverse incentives in the NHS reforms’, British Medical Journal, Vol. 310, pp 1245-8, 13th May 1995

 

‘Contriving competition’, Health Service Journal, Vol. 105, No. 54465, pp. 30-31, 30th March, 1995 

 

‘Health Policy and Management : The Case Study Method’, The Journal of Health Administration Education Vol.11, No.3, Summer 1993

 

‘Firm Control’, Health Service Journal,  6 August, 1992

 

‘Hungary’s Healthcare Menu’, Health Service Journal, 21 May, 1992

 

‘The Health Service and the General Election’, British Medical Journal, Education and Debate Section, Vol. 300, 17 August, 1991

 

‘Myths of Competition’, Health Service Journal, 30 May, 1991

 

‘Perestroika in the USSR Health Care System’, British Medical Journal, Vol. 298, 8 July, 1989

 

‘Medical Testing and Health Insurance’, Leading Article, British Medical Journal, Vol. 298, 21 January, 1989

 

‘Private Health Care’, British Medical Journal, Vol. 298, 7 January, 1989

 

‘Reviewing the NHS - More Turbulence for the System’, British Medical Journal, Vol. 297, 5 November, 1988

 

‘Trouble with Health Maintenance Organisations’, Leading Article, British Medical Journal, Vol. 297, 15 October, 1988

 

‘Another Shock to the System for the NHS’ (on the RAWP Review (resource allocation)), Lancet (Anonymous Editorial),  30 July, 1988

 

‘The NHS at 40: Skeletons at the Birthday Feast’, Lancet, July 9, 1988

 Director and principal lecturer and tutor, MBA Health Executive programme

 Director, DBA Programme in Health (professional doctorate)

 Teaches politics, public policy and health policy

• Paton C (November 2006), New Labours State of Health: Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS, Ashgate:
  As well as being an academic in politics and health policy, Calum Paton is a perceptive analyst of today's NHS. He also chaired one of the UK's largest NHS hospital Trusts for five years. I believe that his assessment of the NHS is 'spot on' and that his honesty in 'speaking truth to power' is sorely needed' Dave Crowley, Chief Executive, University Hospital of North Staffs NHS Trust 2001-2005 and Director of Finance 1998-2001
  
  ' At last - a book by a respected political scientist that not only exposes the policy paradoxes at the heart of New Labour's health reforms but also demolishes their very rationale. Those seeking to understand how we have ended up in this sorry mess will find solace here' David J Hunter, Professor of Health Policy and Management School for Health, Durham University, UK.
  
  

  Consultant and adviser to the WHO, the EU and DFID

   

  Has advised political parties.

   

  Frequent media commentator, national and local