NHS SOS [antikvár]

Foreword Ken Loach The reform of the National Health Sen/ice is, of course, to bring it back into the marketplace and degrade it back into making health care a commodity - so it's not reform at all. If we don't understand that we've got to do everything, up to and including breaking the law, to defend the National Health Service, then we're finished. First the words of a distinguished GP, then those of a former Liverpool dock worker. Across society, there is a realisation that the National Health Service is one of our greatest social achievements and that to keep it is an enormous political challenge. This book is a weapon in that struggle. It shows how politicians of all parties, to a greater or lesser extent, have prepared the way for privatisation. It is a familiar pattern. The process in the health service began in the early 1980s, with the subcontracting