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Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and
Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on
the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS - which
has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented
changes. Providing an authoritative and accessible overview of the
new NHS, the book describes: the structures and functions of the
new organizations in each of the devolved countries the funding of
NHS services, education, training and research and resource
allocation the regulation of the new NHS systems and workforce the
relationships between the NHS, the Department of Health, local
authorities and regulatory bodies, and between the NHS and the
private sector the future implications of current policies. This is
an indispensable resource for those working in healthcare today as
clinicians, academics, researchers and managers. It will also be
essential reading for academics, students, and researchers in
related fields, as well as the general public.
Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and
Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on
the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS - which
has emerged from a far-reaching programme of market-oriented
changes. Providing an authoritative and accessible overview of the
new NHS, the book describes: the structures and functions of the
new organizations in each of the devolved countries the funding of
NHS services, education, training and research and resource
allocation the regulation of the new NHS systems and workforce the
relationships between the NHS, the Department of Health, local
authorities and regulatory bodies, and between the NHS and the
private sector the future implications of current policies. This is
an indispensable resource for those working in healthcare today as
clinicians, academics, researchers and managers. It will also be
essential reading for academics, students, and researchers in
related fields, as well as the general public.
This book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in
the practice of sport and at some of the issues, debates and
controversies that have arisen as a result. Written by experts in
history, sociology, sport journalism and public health, the book
considers sport and injury in relation to matters of social class;
gender; ethnicity and race; sexuality; political ideology and
national identity; health and wellbeing; childhood; animal rights;
and popular culture. These matters are, in turn, variously related
to a range of sports, including ancient, pre- and early industrial
sports; American football; boxing; wrestling and other combat
sports; mountaineering; horseracing; cycling; motor racing; rugby
football; cricket; association football; baseball; basketball;
Crossfit; ice hockey; Olympic sports; Mixed Martial Arts; and sport
in an imagined dystopian future.
This book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in
the practice of sport and at some of the issues, debates and
controversies that have arisen as a result. Written by experts in
history, sociology, sport journalism and public health, the book
considers sport and injury in relation to matters of social class;
gender; ethnicity and race; sexuality; political ideology and
national identity; health and wellbeing; childhood; animal rights;
and popular culture. These matters are, in turn, variously related
to a range of sports, including ancient, pre- and early industrial
sports; American football; boxing; wrestling and other combat
sports; mountaineering; horseracing; cycling; motor racing; rugby
football; cricket; association football; baseball; basketball;
Crossfit; ice hockey; Olympic sports; Mixed Martial Arts; and sport
in an imagined dystopian future.
Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and
disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of
the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of
the NHS's most eloquent and passionate defenders, tells the story
of how that ideal has been progressively eroded, and how the clock
is being turned back to pre-NHS days, when health care was a
commodity, fully available only to those with money. How this has
come about-to the point where even the shrinking core of free NHS
hospital services is being handed over to private providers at the
taxpayers' expense-is still not widely understood, hidden behind
slogans like "care in the community," "diversity" and "local
ownership." Allyson Pollock demystifies these terms, and in doing
so presents a clear and powerful analysis of the transition from a
comprehensive and universal service to New Labour's "mixed economy
of health care," in which hospitals with foundation status, loosely
supervised by an independent regulator, will be run on largely
market principles. The NHS remains popular, Pollock argues,
precisely because it created the "freedom from fear" that its
founders promised, and because its integrated, non-commercial
character meant low costs and good medical practice. Restoring
these values in today's health service has become an urgent
necessity, and this book will be a key resource for everyone
wishing to to bring this about.
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