LEADER 03057nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910784172603321 005 20230721025438.0 010 $a1-280-92976-6 010 $a9786610929764 010 $a1-84642-569-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000338020 035 $a(EBL)296018 035 $a(OCoLC)437181910 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110609 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137842 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110609 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10064418 035 $a(PQKB)11520925 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC296018 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL296018 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10182442 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL92976 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000338020 100 $a20060802d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetraying the NHS$b[electronic resource] $ehealth abandoned /$fMichael Mandelstam 210 $aLondon ;$aPhiladelphia $cJessica Kingsley Publishers$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84310-482-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aComprehensive, 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. 330 $aBased 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. 606 $aHealth services administration$zGreat Britain 606 $aMedical policy$zGreat Britain 606 $aNational health services$zGreat Britain 615 0$aHealth services administration 615 0$aMedical policy 615 0$aNational health services 676 $a362.10941 700 $aMandelstam$b Michael$f1956-$01464777 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784172603321 996 $aBetraying the NHS$93674579 997 $aUNINA