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Google Preview: Michael Mandelstam has worked independently for thirteen years providing legal training, advice and consultancy to local authorities, the NHS and voluntary organisations. Prior to this, he worked at the Disabled Living Foundation, a national voluntary organisation, before moving to the Social Services Inspectorate at the Department of Health. He holds postgraduate qualifications in law, information studies and the history of science and medicine.; 1. Introduction. 2. Summary. 3. 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 fending: 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. 23. Conclusions. Index.; BETRAYING THE NHS is extensively researched and referenced. It documents the bewilderment of local people and their sense of powerlessness in the face of centrally imposed changes and ever moning goal posts. This book is destined to become a classic text for those seeking to understand health care policy and its effects on the lives of local people.; Download; Google Preview content

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