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In Practice: The NHS Market

Hippocrates staffThis report describes the actual operation of the NHS market in contrast to the theories. It priced the NHS market for the first time and this estimate (£1.7 billion a year), based on official figures, was substantiated by the subsequent Audit Commission report 'A price on their heads'.

1995: 29 pages . Price £3.50


Myths about the NHS and Rationing Health Care

This report describes the remarkably low cost of the NHS compared with health care in other industrialised countries. It criticises the current fashion in policy think tanks for advocating the rationing of NHS services before addressing resource shortages and evidence about the effectiveness of services.

1995: 12 pages. Price £3.00


Health Care; Private Corporations or Public Service?

The Americanisation of the NHS

The report compares the public service model of the NHS with health care in the United States, the biggest and most striking market and corporate model. Ten features of health care in the UK and US are compared and contrasted and ways examined in which the NHS has been moving towards a privatised system.

1995: 40 pages. Price £10.00


The Mental Health Service

A report from psychiatrists in the NHS Consultants' Association. It describes the present state of the mental health services for England and Wales as they relate to adults (mainly 16-65).

1997: 15 pages. Price £5.00


Private Finance in Health Care: Why Not

A comprehensive report on why PFI poses a major threat to the future of the NHS.

Price £3.00 (inc. p&p)


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