Enhancing democratic accountability in health and social care: The role of reform and performance information in Health and Wellbeing Boards

Suzana Grubnic; Stuart Cooper

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Enhancing democratic accountability in health and social care: The role of reform and performance information in Health and Wellbeing Boards

Suzana Grubnic^*, Stuart Cooper

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The UK government passed the Health and Social Care Act in 2012, and a key element of this legislation was the introduction of Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) in local government. HWBs were argued to have the potential to both improve democratic accountability and give greater autonomy to health and social care leaders to strengthen local health outcomes. This paper explores how members of HWBs construct and discharge accountability for better health outcomes to a local population. We find that there are multiple types of accountability present and that democratic accountability can be complemented by and compete with other types of accountability.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	353 - 372
Number of pages	20
Journal	Financial Accountability and Management
Volume	35
Issue number	4
Early online date	22 Aug 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/faam.12216
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2019

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Health and Wellbeing Boards
New Public Governance
performance
reforms

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