NHSCA Publications
The Plot against the NHS
Book by Colin Leys and Stewart Player:
This excellent book is essential reading if you want to make a critical evaluation of the future of the NHS.
2011
Summary of contents and method for ordering
NHSCA's Executive Committee's
summarised Report of Lansley's Bill
Reshaping
the NHS and its implications for Consultants by Stewart
Player with Colin Leys
This report describes in great detail how the NHS has arrived in its
present parlous state
and how this Bill will effectively destroy the NHS unless the
profession musters meaningful opposition.
2011: 57 pages (the full report). Price £3.00 including postage and
packing
In Practice: The NHS Market
This 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
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
Ordering
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