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Svein Ivar Angell, The Regional Dynamics of Hospital Systems: A Case Study of Haukeland University Hospital, Norway, Social History of Medicine, Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2013, Pages 469–488, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkt032
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Abstract
The article examines the political processes associated with the funding and organisation of Norway's Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Attempts to transform and develop Haukeland Hospital were complex and ‘the Haukeland issue’, as it became known in Norway, involved multiple agencies and a wide range of often conflicting interests. Participants included the City of Bergen, the University of Bergen, Hordaland County Council, central state health authorities, politicians, medical professionals and the media. This paper analyses these events in terms of the broader political struggles related to the development of hospital systems in the post-war period, focusing particularly on the ‘centre–periphery’ relationships within Norway's health care system.