TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollock,Allyson
AU  - Leys,Colin
TI  - NHS plc: the privatisation of our health care 
SN  - 1844670112
AV  - RA412.5.G7 P656 2004
U1  - 362.10941 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - National Health Service
KW  - National health services
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Health services administration
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Finance
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Privatization
KW  - Health Care Sector
KW  - trends
KW  - Marketing of Health Services
KW  - economics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-254) and index; 1; Market prescriptions --; 2; The real cost of market prescriptions --; 3; Privatising the NHS : an overview --; 4; Hospitals --; 5; Primary care --; 6; Long-term care for older people --; 7; Overcoming opposition --; 8; The emerging health care market
N2  - "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
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