Nhs Plc

Author : Allyson M. Pollock
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602076
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NHS plc written by Allyson M. Pollock and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of the NHS's most eloquent and passionate defenders, tells the story of how that ideal has been progressively eroded, and how the clock is being turned back to pre-NHS days, when health care was a commodity, fully available only to those with money. How this has come about-to the point where even the shrinking core of free NHS hospital services is being handed over to private providers at the taxpayers' expense-is still not widely understood, hidden behind slogans like "care in the community," "diversity" and "local ownership." Allyson Pollock demystifies these terms, and in doing so presents a clear and powerful analysis of the transition from a comprehensive and universal service to New Labour's "mixed economy of health care," in which hospitals with foundation status, loosely supervised by an independent regulator, will be run on largely market principles. The NHS remains popular, Pollock argues, precisely because it created the "freedom from fear" that its founders promised, and because its integrated, non-commercial character meant low costs and good medical practice. Restoring these values in today's health service has become an urgent necessity, and this book will be a key resource for everyone wishing to to bring this about.

Author : Sabrina Germain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509902724
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice and Profit in Health Care Law written by Sabrina Germain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of justice in the field of health care is becoming more central with concerns over access, cost and provision. Obamacare in the United States and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in the United Kingdom are key examples illustrating the increasing pressure put on governments to find just and equitable solutions to the problem of health care provision. Justice and Profit in Health Care Law explores the influence of justice principles on the elaboration of laws reforming health care systems. By examining the role played by key for-profit stakeholders (doctors, employers and insurers), it tracks the evolution of distributive norms for the allocation of health care resources in western welfare states. Essentially, this book sheds light on the place given to justice in the health care law-making process in order to understand the place we wish to give these principles in future health care reforms.

Author : Frank Huisman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319036
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Citizenship written by Frank Huisman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide.

Author : Christine Hogg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137090197
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens, Consumers and the NHS written by Christine Hogg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the story of user involvement in the NHS over the last 30 years, this fascinating new book provides an analysis of the conceptual terrain that underlies debates about public and patient involvement. It is essential reading for students in all health related disciplines for whom the user experience is key.

Author : Dalingwater, Louise
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 179983929X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The NHS and Contemporary Health Challenges From a Multilevel Perspective written by Dalingwater, Louise and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Health Service, or NHS, is the United Kingdom’s national healthcare system. It oversees the public’s health and ensures the medical wellbeing of the population of the UK. Governance network processes are complex because of the different nature of agendas and strategies of actors involved in health, but increasingly, because of the link between social and healthcare delivery, recent initiatives to provide a joined up or integrated approach have been presented. However, the extent of joined-up governance processes in the National Health Service is rather uneven. So far, reforms to try to improve the running of the NHS through the introduction of market mechanisms or increased decentralization have only served to exacerbate such tensions and resulted in further fragmentation of the public health system. The NHS and Contemporary Health Challenges From a Multilevel Perspective illustrates the complexities of governing public health services that are part of the NHS and takes an innovative approach by examining public health provision through a multiscalar lens, which reveals significant limits of the current governance model. The book raises the various challenges that clinical staff, public authorities, and the general public face in the provision of healthcare to uphold core values inherent in health systems. While highlighting topics including health governance, patient satisfaction, and public health, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, government officials, healthcare administrators, hospital managers, healthcare researchers, medical professionals, and students.

Author : Andrew Seaton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300268270
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our NHS written by Andrew Seaton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, from its surprising survival over the decades to today's crises

Author : Patricia Holland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137313226
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s written by Patricia Holland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.

Author : Roger Taylor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057130365X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Bless the NHS written by Roger Taylor and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Health Service, described by Nigel Lawson as Britain's only 'national religion', has never been more popular. So why is the government so desperate to reform it? Last year, the Office of National Statistics reported higher public satisfaction with the NHS than at any time since its foundation. In a 2012 survey of developed countries, the UK showed the highest public support of its health system. Politicians can hardly be surprised then, when their plans to reforms are met with public dismay and professional fury. This year has seen one of the most bruising political battles ever fought over the future of the NHS. The twenty-two month fight to push the NHS and Social Care Act through parliament prompted the most widespread political campaign by doctors since Aneurin Bevan established the NHS in 1948. It cost the coalition government dearly and shredded the reputation of the Secretary of State for Health. So why did they do it? God Bless the NHS looks at the ideology behind the current reforms and the reasons why the government decided to take on the nation's most treasured institution. Roger Taylor looks equivocally at those who support and oppose the new system, and at the patchy history of attempts to reform the NHS and the likelihood of the success this time round. Finally, it addresses the political failure at the heart of the problem and the inevitable conflict when politics and medicine mix.

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780743297
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NHS SOS written by Raymond Tallis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exposé of the back-door deals and negligence that threaten to destroy the NHS – and a 10-step manifesto for saving it The Coalition Government passed into law an unprecedented assault on the NHS. Doctors, unions, the media, even politicians who claimed to be stalwart defenders failed to protect it. Now the effect of those devastating reforms are beginning to be felt by patients – but we can still save our country’s most valued institution if we take lessons from this terrible betrayal and act on them. Contributors to this eye-opening dissection include Dr Jacky Davis, Oliver Huitson, Dr John Lister, Stewart Player, Prof. Allyson Pollock, David Price, Prof. Raymond Tallis, Dr Charled West and Dr David Wrigley. Proceeds from the profits of this book will go to Keep Our NHS Public (www.keepournhspublic.com).

Author : Calum Paton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030998185
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NHS Reform and Health Politics in the UK written by Calum Paton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an original analysis of the trajectory of health policy reform in the United Kingdom from the beginning of the ‘Thatcher reforms’ in the 1980s right up to the latest changes in England in 2022. Rooted in political science and health policy analysis, it tackles key arguments around the ‘new integration’ of the NHS since 2015, what the new and emerging NHS structure represents, the UK’s poor response to the Covid-19 crisis, and the future threat to a comprehensive public NHS. It includes significant new material on what has happened since 2015, such as the politics of the Covid-19 pandemic, the effects of Brexit, and the conundrum of ‘social care’. The book is a scholarly and polemical analysis from an expert who has studied the politics of health services for more than forty years. It will be a key resource for students, academics and policy makers.