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The NHS & the Market - The TRUTH
The NHS after 60
For patients or profits?
Sixty years ago, in 1948, Aneurin Bevan’s bold nationalisation of private, voluntary and municipal hospitals swept away a failed market system, and created the most popular of all the public services, the NHS.
New Labour reforms are reversing this historic modernisation, and spending more money to create an artificial ‘market’ in health care which could never exist without government subsidy.
In The NHS After 60, John Lister takes a fresh look at the origins and evolution of the NHS, emphasising the ‘reforms’ which, in its sixth decade, have begun to transform the NHS into a European-style social health insurance fund, purchasing services from a variety of private- and public-sector providers.
Lister also examines the NHS in an international context and discusses recent tendencies of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments to follow alternative lines of policy.
The conclusion looks at the alternatives for the future development of the NHS.
Will ministers roll the wheel of history further back towards a more radical market system?
Or will they move forward to a public service based on greater accountability and responsiveness to the needs and wishes of local people and those with greatest health needs?
AN ESSENTIAL READ TO THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT THEIR NHS AND HAVING IT
FREE AT THE POINT OF DELIVERY - IT TELLS THE TRUTH FROM THE AUTHOR
OF HINCHINGBROOKE - CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon is now to be run by a For Profit,Offshore,Hedge Fund Backed, Tory Donor Organisation ...Circle Health They say it is not Privatisation...but it is all but We NOW find that Staff will be part of Clinical Groups AND be RESPONSIBLE for PROFIT & LOSS for Circle so WHAT are Circle doing?.... The Contract is in Circle Health's favour...they can get out at ANY TIME...with a small compensation to the Department of Health.. EMAIL - sgl5gjr@mail.com ....
