Betraying the NHS (eBook)

Michael Mandelstam has provided independent legal advice and training on health and social care matters to the NHS, local authorities and voluntary organisations for over ten years. He previously worked for ten years at the Disabled Living Foundation and for several years in the Department of Health. He has written a number of widely used legal books, including Community Care Practice and the Law, now in its third edition, An A-Z of Community Care Law, Equipment for Older or Disabled People and the Law, and Manual Handling in Health and Social Care: An A-Z of Law and Practice all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Author's Note. 1. Introduction: Death Throes of a Health Service. 2. Comprehensive, Universal and Free. 4. Sowing Financial Seeds: the Great Investment. 5. Declaring the Health Harvest and Concealing Ruined Crops. 6. Uprooting the Traditional Health Fields. 7. Cultivation of Local Health Services. 8. Choosing the Method of Cultivation: Patient Choice. 9. Alienating and Spreading Fear in the Community. 10. Combing the Landscape for a Decision-maker. 11. Rushing into Decisions and Reaping the Consequences. 12. Discarding the Chaff: the Shedding of NHS Responsibilities. 13. The Great Hospital and Health Service Clearout. 14. From Hospital to Homestead: the Great Go-between of Intermediate Care. 15. Thresholds and Fencing: Erecting the Social Care Barriers. 16. The Uprooting of Real Care. 17. Suffolk Health Services: Gathering Storm Over the Land. 18. Rural Conflagrations and Early Hostilities. 19. Setting the Wheels in Motion: the Timetable of War. 20. The Campaign in Full Flux. 21. Other Fights in a Changing Landscape. 22. Decision-making Day: A Dimming of the Suffolk Light. 23. Conclusions. Index.