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Author Pollock, Allyson.

Title NHS plc : the privatisation of our health care / Allyson M. Pollock, with Colin Leys ... [and others]
Published London ; New York : Verso, 2004

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 W'PONDS  362.10941 Pol/Npt  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Market prescriptions -- The real cost of market prescriptions -- Privatising the NHS: an overview -- Hospitals -- Primary care -- Long-term care for older people -- Overcoming opposition -- The emerging health care market
Summary "Comprehensive, free health care for everyone, funded by all taxpayers, was the founding principle of the NHS. It became the model for public services across the world." "But this vision is being destroyed. The NHS is being broken up and dismantled. Important services are no longer provided by the NHS, and what is left is increasingly being subjected to part or full privatisation. Control and ownership of health care is moving from public bodies to private companies whose profits are made at the expense of staff and patients."
"The speed and direction of the change is concealed by the rhetoric of 'modernisation', 'choice', 'diversity' and 'local ownership', and by the complexity of privatisation mechanisms such as PFI, PPPs, LIFT and foundation hospital trusts. Allyson Pollock demystifies these terms and the process of privatisation, providing an analysis of New Labour's 'mixed economy of health care'. Her conclusion is clear: a system which was designed to promote equity and universality is being replaced by a multitude of fragmented and competing providers driven by financial incentives rather than the health needs of the population."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Great Britain
National Health Service (GB)
Privatisation
Public health
Health care
Organisational change
Health policy
Hospitals
Statistics
Trends
Overseas item
Key item
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Great Britain. National Health Service.
National health services -- Great Britain -- economics
Health Care Sector -- trends -- Great Britain
Marketing of Health Services -- economics -- Great Britain
Privatization -- Great Britain -- economics
National health services -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain.
Health services administration -- Great Britain.
Medical care -- Great Britain -- Finance.
Medical policy -- Great Britain.
Privatization -- Great Britain.
State Medicine -- economics.
Health Care Sector -- trends.
Marketing of Health Services -- economics.
Privatization -- economics.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Author Leys, Colin.
LC no. 2004012869
ISBN 1844670112 cased
Other Titles National Health Service : the privatisation of our health care