02359nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10182442 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 060802s2007 enk sb 001 0 eng d 2006025130 1843104822 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781843104827 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781846425691 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)122912858 e-uk--- RA395.G6 M364 2007eb 362.10941 22 Mandelstam, Michael, 1956- Betraying the NHS [electronic resource] : health abandoned / Michael Mandelstam. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007. ii, 317 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Health services administration Great Britain. Medical policy Great Britain. National health services Great Britain. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10182442 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 143003 143003