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Book Description: Comprehensive, free health care for everyone, funded by all taxpayers, was the founding principle of the NHS. It became the model for public services across the world. But this vision is being destroyed. The NHS is being broken up and dismantled. Important services are no longer provided by the NHS, and what is left is increasingly subjected to part or full privatisation. Control and ownership of health care is moving from public bodies to private companies whose profits are made at the expense of staff and patients. The speed and direction of this change is concealed by the rhetoric of 'modernisation,' 'choice,' 'diversity,' and 'local ownership,' and by the complexity of privatisation mechanisms such as PFIs, PPPs, LIFT and foundation hospital trusts. Allyson Pollock demystifies these terms, providing a powerful analysis of New Labour's 'mixed economy of health care.' The NHS remains popular precisely because it created the 'freedom from fear' that its founder Aneurin Bevan promised. Its integrated, non-commercial character meant good medical practice at a low cost. Restoring these principles has become an urgent necessity, and Pollock's book will be a key resource for everyone who wants that to happen.

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