- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks (1 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192892967
- ISBN-13: 978-0192892966
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 229,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A vibrant and highly readable account. Webster is probably the most knowledgeable writer about the NHS, and this results in the most comprehensive single volume history of the service available: everyone - even 'experts' - will learn something from it ... It is very much a 'Heineken history', refreshing the parts other histories do not reach. It is an incisive, committed, and judgemental account ... an excellent history. (Social History of Medicine )
Written with compelling cogency and journalistic flair the book reads like a detective story, providing clues to understanding the New Labour legacy on health policy. This book is a superb guide to understanding the key pressures and logic which drive health policy under Labour. For health service professionals in any doubt that the NHS is relentlessly entwined with the political processes of government, this book firmly and patiently dissects and comments on each aspect of health service life. (Nursing Standard )
Webster's damning analysis is strong meat ... The authority leant by his intimate acquaintance with more than 50 years of health policy-making means his gloomy view cannot easily be dismissed. (Peter Davies, Health Service Journal ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Written with compelling cogency and journalistic flair the book reads like a detective story, providing clues to understanding the New Labour legacy on health policy. This book is a superb guide to understanding the key pressures and logic which drive health policy under Labour. For health service professionals in any doubt that the NHS is relentlessly entwined with the political processes of government, this book firmly and patiently dissects and comments on each aspect of health service life. (Nursing Standard )
Webster's damning analysis is strong meat ... The authority leant by his intimate acquaintance with more than 50 years of health policy-making means his gloomy view cannot easily be dismissed. (Peter Davies, Health Service Journal ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The National Health Service was established at a time when health care in the United Kingdom was desperately in need of improvement. This OPUS looks at the political decisions surrounding its foundation and the purpose which it was intended to serve. Despite many changes of political ethos since its foundation on 5 July 1948, every government has declared its intention to maintain and improve the National Health Service. Nevertheless, the National Health Service has faced some almost cyclical problems, while apparently new ideas (for example, the introduction of a chief executive) in fact have a long ancestry, and there is a drift towards a seemingly endless pattern of reorganization. Charles Webster's narrative concentrates on policy issues of major import to the patient and consumer including funding, resources, and health issues, as well as recognizing the achievements and limitations of this major national institution.
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