03168nam 2200649 a 450 991096458930332120200520144314.097866109297649781280929762128092976697818464256911846425697(CKB)1000000000338020(EBL)296018(OCoLC)437181910(SSID)ssj0000110609(PQKBManifestationID)11137842(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110609(PQKBWorkID)10064418(PQKB)11520925(Au-PeEL)EBL296018(CaPaEBR)ebr10182442(CaONFJC)MIL92976(MiAaPQ)EBC296018(Perlego)951464(EXLCZ)99100000000033802020060802d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBetraying the NHS health abandoned /Michael Mandelstam1st ed.London ;Philadelphia Jessica Kingsley Publishers20071 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781843104827 1843104822 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Health services administrationGreat BritainMedical policyGreat BritainNational health servicesGreat BritainHealth services administrationMedical policyNational health services362.10941Mandelstam Michael1956-1594479MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964589303321Betraying the NHS4355086UNINA