The National Health Service Sixty Years on - Where Have We Been and Where are We Now? (Paperback)

This book is both historical and topical. Historical, because it attempts to paint a picture of the performance and progress of one of the largest organisations in operation today, the National Health Service, which this year will celebrate 60 years of service to the community, by providing treatment and care to the nation. It has reached a point of consolidation and a time to take stock. This book seeks to do precisely that, by examining, "Where Have we Been" and "Where are we Now."
It is topical, because it seeks to establish the position to date, and what the future may have in store for the Service and all those involved in its progress. The Author has been firm but fair in his comments and at the same time has not pronounced criticism or highlighted the failures without offering advice or the alternative. After all is said and done, the NHS is an organisation we all have a share in and collectively own, and it is for that reason that we should all be interested in its progress and performance and the quality of service it delivers.
The book looks to the future, with all the added and anticipated problems, with the intention that those in a position to make good will do so and not, as seems to have been the case in the past, take no notice.