The Gift of Health

This text reveals how the NHS has become dependent on charity to buy equipment, to support running costs and to build hospitals; how charitable funds are being used to support the expansion of private care in the NHS; how private hospitals benefit from millions of pounds in charitable tax breaks; how the state relies on charities to provide NHS services and to subsidize them through fundraising; and how charitable and private investment is distorting the pattern of future NHS. The book should be of interest to health pracitioners, policy-makers, charity professionals - and anyone who cares about the future of the National Health Service.