Health administration: the wealth and welfare wager.

Taking resources away from the NHS is not an easy thing to do, as the outraged cries of protest against the cuts over the past few months have testified. But hand in hand with this process has been the Government's determination to find new ways of putting money back into the service. Drew Clode examines some of the local approaches to fund raising so warmly espoused by the DHSS and examines how successful similar schemes have been when tried out in local government.