How Britain Loves the NHS : Practices of Care and Contestation / Ellen A. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

A. Stewart, Ellen, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.) : 4 Black and White

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What does it mean to love a healthcare system? It is often claimed that the UK population is unusually attached to its National Health Service and the last decade has seen increasingly visible displays of gratitude and love. Whilst social surveys of public attitudes measure how much Britain loves the NHS, this book mobilises new empirical research to ask how Britain love its NHS. The answer delves into a series of public practices – such as campaigning, donating and volunteering within NHS organisations – and investigates how attitudes to the NHS shape patient experience of healthcare. Stewart argues that these should be understood as practices of care for, and contestation about the future of, the healthcare system. This book offers a timely critique of both the potential, and the dysfunctions, of Britain’s complex love affair with the NHS.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures and tables

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

On loving the NHS

Public opinion and the NHS

Fundraising for the NHS

Volunteering in the NHS

Campaigning for the NHS

Using and loving the NHS

What we can do with love: the future of the NHS in public

Research methods

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

1-4473-6889-4

OCLC:

1394872151