National Health Service: A Political History

TITLE PAGE......Page 4
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION......Page 8
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION......Page 10
CONTENTS......Page 12
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 13
LIST OF TABLES......Page 14
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
1. CREATION AND CONSOLIDATION......Page 18
Flawed Inheritance......Page 19
Chaos and Depression......Page 20
World War and Planning for Reconstruction......Page 23
Labour in Power......Page 29
The New Plan for Health......Page 32
Renewed Confrontation......Page 42
Appointed Day......Page 45
Political Trustees......Page 47
A National Hospital Service......Page 55
Primary and Community Care......Page 63
Persisting Inequalities......Page 74
Awkward Questions......Page 76
2. PLANNING AND REORGANIZATION......Page 82
Government and Politics of Health Care......Page 83
Paying for Health Care......Page 87
Planning, Priorities, and Equality......Page 95
Reorganization......Page 104
Hospital Services......Page 128
Community Health Services......Page 141
Primary Health Care......Page 144
Family Planning......Page 149
Crisis of Health Care......Page 152
3. CONTINUOUS REVOLUTION......Page 157
Ideological Reorientation......Page 159
Paying for Health Care......Page 165
Patients First......Page 175
The Management Revolution......Page 179
Family Practitioner Services......Page 191
Working for Patients......Page 199
Unto Market......Page 210
4. NEW AGE OF LABOUR......Page 225
New Labour Project for Health......Page 226
Labour in Power......Page 230
Fresh Starts in a New NHS......Page 234
Paying for Health......Page 247
Modernisation......Page 252
Structural Overhaul......Page 255
Quality Organisation......Page 263
CONCLUSIONS......Page 270
APPENDIX......Page 276
NOTES......Page 279
FURTHER READING......Page 291
INDEX......Page 294