The Rise and Fall of the NHS

Prof Donald Longmore OBE

ISBN 10: 190762922X / ISBN 13: 9781907629228

Published by Pressman House Publishing Limited, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rise and Fall of the NHS
• Publisher: Pressman House Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190762922X
• ISBN 13: 9781907629228
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 200 grams

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Synopsis

The National Health One of the greatest achievements of the 20th century may soon be no more. Now the NHS is imminently threatened with destruction, it is the responsibility of someone who knows the NHS intimately and cares about it, to diagnose what has gone wrong with it, to tell it how it is and to propose a practical course of action which could save it from destruction uninformed political interference; resources being wasted on excessive, damaging and unnecessary bureaucracy; management instead of leadership; and multiple predators who will gain from its demise. The once-noble organisation, which at first significantly increased our life expectancy by an average of 5.2 years, is now actually responsible in some areas for an increasing death rate and has been reduced to headline scandals and becoming the butt of cartoonists. If the description is a true representation of the rise and fall , has it really fallen It s not all bad. I hope sincerely, as is most likely, that you the reader are a relatively fit person who will not be ill, break a hip, have a stroke, or become senile. The sad thing is that the NHS may soon be no more. The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State have fought a health bill through Parliament, believing that it will improve the service and reduce the cost. It seemed that those who drafted the Health Bill could not come up with a worse structure but they have. The NHS is the world s fourth biggest employer with over 1.4 million, employing on the frontline 386,500 nurses (38% foreign, not all trained and speaking English), 109,000 doctors (35% foreign, not all trained and speaking English) and 122,000 scientists, technicians, etc. adding up to 617,500. This leaves 782,500 an excess of 164,500 others