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Health Affairs, 28, no. 1 (2009): 190-201 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.190 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Chronic Care In The English National Health Service: Progress And Challenges

Chris Ham

One of the aims of the English National Health Service (NHS) reform program has been to give higher priority to chronic care. Chronic care policy has focused on self-management, disease management, and case management, alongside a number of related initiatives. A start has been made in implementing these initiatives, and some are beginning to demonstrate benefits, like the new pay-for-performance contract for family physicians. However, investment in the chronic care policy has been modest, and the emphasis on case management appears to have been misplaced, when it is the cumulative effect of different interventions that is likely to have the greatest impact.

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