Betraying the NHS

Michael Mandelstam provides independent legal training to local authorities, the NHS and voluntary organisations. In the past, he worked at the Disabled Living Foundation, a national voluntary organisation, and for a few years at the Social Services Inspectorate at the Department of Health. He holds postgraduate qualifications in law, information studies and the history of science and medicine.

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.