The National Health Service: A Political History

The National Health Service: A Political History
ISBN-10
019925110X
ISBN-13
9780199251100
Category
History
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Charles Webster

Description

The foundation of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948 was a momentous development in the history of the United Kingdom. Issues of health care touch the lives of everyone, and the NHS has come to be regarded as the cornerstone of the welfare state and as a model for state-organisedhealth care systems elsewhere. Yet throughout its history, the Service has existed in an atmosphere of crisis. Charles Webster's political history is an entirely new and original examination of the NHS from its inception through to its management under the first term of the current Labourgovernment, providing the necessary framewrork for assessing its future as we enter the new millennium.

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