The End of the NHS
Why the Government Wants to Destroy the Health Service
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-78168-604-1 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last decade, both New Labour and Tory governments have attempted to dismantle the National Health Service, in an ideological assault. Since its foundation in 1946, the NHS has been at the center of the welfare state, but now it lies in tatters, the result of cost cutting and exposure to the free market in the false pursuit of efficiencies and savings. Today, while the politicians claim that they are responding to the problem, the news is dominated by stories of A. and E. departments stretched to the limit, the collapse of care, junior doctors striking for fair pay, and a crisis in mental health.
In The End of the NHS Allyson M. Pollock, one of the nation's leading public health specialists, exposes the truth behind the botched policies and underhand politics that has seen the rampant privatisation of a universal healthcare system. Post Brexit the system will be under ever more threats from market forces. In response, she show that the NHS has to modernise but makes a passionate defence of a health service for all, free at the point of delivery.
In The End of the NHS Allyson M. Pollock, one of the nation's leading public health specialists, exposes the truth behind the botched policies and underhand politics that has seen the rampant privatisation of a universal healthcare system. Post Brexit the system will be under ever more threats from market forces. In response, she show that the NHS has to modernise but makes a passionate defence of a health service for all, free at the point of delivery.
Reviews / Votes
A tale that demands to be read by every person in this country who has a stake in the NHS and the remnants of the welfare state . . . told with lucid and detailed authority. (In praise of NHC plc) * Guardian * An excellent guide, not only to the woes of the NHS but, by extension, to those of all the public services in Britain ... It is a lamentable tale of private enterprise without enterprise, and public expenditure without public purpose. (In praise of NHC plc) * New Statesman * Allyson Pollock confirms suspicions that something is rotten in the state of the UK's health system. NHS plc should be required reading for every clinician and patient in the UK. (In praise of NHC plc) * Lancet *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-604-1 (9781781686041)
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Person
Allyson M. Pollock is Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary, University of London. She set up and directed the Centre for International Public Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh from 2005 to 2011, and prior to that she was Head of the Public Health Policy Unit at UCL and Director of Research and Development at UCL Hospitals NHS Trust. She is the author of NHS plc and coauthor of The New NHS: A Guide. She writes regularly in the Guardian as well as many professional publications. Website: www.allysonpollock.com