Betraying the NHS : health abandoned / Michael Mandelstam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandelstam, Michael, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health services administration--Great Britain.

Health services administration.

Medical policy--Great Britain.

Medical policy.

National health services--Great Britain.

National health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on his experiences of helping to fight cuts and closures in Suffolk, Michael Mandelstam delivers a damning verdict on the mismanagement of the NHS at national, regional and local level. He charts the widespread cutbacks and closures, both rural and urban, to clinics, A&E services, beds, wards and scores of community hospitals.

Contents:

Comprehensive, universal, and free

Sowing financial seeds: the great investment

Declaring the health harvest and concealing ruined crops

Uprooting the traditional health fields

Cultivation of local health services

Choosing the method of cultivation: patient choice

Alienating and spreading fear in the community

Combing the landscape for a decision-maker

Rushing into decisions and reaping the consequences

Discarding the chaff: the shedding of NHS responsibilities

The great hospital and health service clearout

From hospital to homestead: the great go-between of intermediate care

Thresholds and fending: erecting the social care barriers

The uprooting of real care

Suffolk health services: gathering storm over the land

Rural conflagrations and early hostilities

Setting the wheels in motion: the timetable of war

The campaign in full flux

Other fights in a changing landscape

Decision-making day.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610929764

9781280929762

1280929766

9781846425691

1846425697

OCLC:

437181910