NHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care-Allyson M. Pollo .

Verso Books

NHS plcThe Privatisation of Our Health Care\nAuthor(s): Allyson M Pollock, Colin Leys, David Price, David Rowland, Shamini Gnani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Verso Books\nISBN-13: 9781844675395, 978-1844675395\nSynopsis\nUniversal, 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.\"" Al.