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Betraying the NHS : health abandoned / / Michael Mandelstam



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Autore: Mandelstam Michael <1956-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Betraying the NHS : health abandoned / / Michael Mandelstam Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-92976-6
9786610929764
1-84642-569-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810178803321
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