Betraying the NHS : health abandoned

Betraying the NHS : health abandoned / Michael Mandelstam.

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,...

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Main Author: Mandelstam, Michael, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.
Subjects:
National health services > Great Britain.
Health services administration > Great Britain.
Medical policy > Great Britain.
Medical care.
Health care reform.
Medical policy.
Medical & Healthcare Law.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Medical care
Health care reform
Health services administration
Medical policy
National health services
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the death throes of a health service
  • 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 fencing : 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 : a dimming of the Suffolk light.

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