The Plot Against the NHS by Stewart Player

The Plot Against the NHS by Stewart Player

Revealing the British coalition government's plans, this examination demonstrates how a small policy community inside and outside the department of health have schemed for 10 years to replace the National Health Service (NHS) with a U.S.-style health care market without informing parliament or the public. While ex-ministers, officials, and the like profit from lucrative positions in private health companies, the population must cope with the increasing health care costs and the diminishing quality of care. With accounts from NHS patients and doctors, the key strategies of implementation are uncovered and the companies involved--their lobby, their businesses, their fortunes, and, in some cases, their crimes--exposed.

'Indispensable..' - Richard Horton, The Guardian 'This compelling analysis means that we can be under no illusion about the intentions of politicians and the medical industrial complex. It is up to us now to do something about it.' Dr Jacky Davis, consultant radiologist 'This short, gripping tale of political intrigue reveals that a few very powerful commercial organisations have ensured that they and most definitely not GPs or patients will be at the heart of the new, reformed NHS' - Dr Jonathon Tomlinson, GP, London

Stewart Player is a public-policy analyst with extensive experience of studying the British National Health Service. Colin Leys is an emeritus professor of political studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He is author of Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest. Wendy Savage is a visiting professor at Middlesex University.

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ISBN 13	9780850366792
ISBN 10	0850366798
Title	The Plot Against the NHS
Author	Stewart Player
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Merlin Press Ltd
Year published	2011-04-14
Number of pages	128
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