Betraying the NHS : health abandoned / / Michael Mandelstam
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| Autore: |
Mandelstam Michael <1956->
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| Titolo: |
Betraying the NHS : health abandoned / / Michael Mandelstam
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.10941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Health services administration - Great Britain |
| Medical policy - Great Britain | |
| National health services - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Betraying the NHS |
| ISBN: | 1-280-92976-6 |
| 9786610929764 | |
| 1-84642-569-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810178803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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