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In 2010, weeks after the election, the Coalition government started to dismantle the National Health Service, in an ideological assault disguised as austerity. Since its foundation in 1946, the NHS has been at the center of the welfare state, but now it lies in tatters, the result of costcutting and exposure to the free market in the false pursuit of efficiencies and savings. Allyson M. Pollock, one of the nation’s leading public health specialists, exposes the truth behind the botched policies and underhand politics and makes a passionate defence of a health service for all.

About the Author

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Allyson M. Pollock is Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary, University of London. She set up and directed the Centre for International Public Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh from 2005 to 2011, and prior to that she was Head of the Public Health Policy Unit at UCL and Director of Research and Development at UCL Hospitals NHS Trust. She is the author of NHS plc and coauthor of The New NHS: A Guide. She writes regularly in the Guardian as well as many professional publications. Website: http://www.allysonpollock.com/

Praise For…

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Praise for NHS plc:

“A tale that demands to be read by every person in this country who has a stake in the NHS and the remnants of the welfare state . . . told with lucid and detailed authority.” —Guardian

“An excellent guide, not only to the woes of the NHS but, by extension, to those of all the public services in Britain ... It is a lamentable tale of private enterprise without enterprise, and public expenditure without public purpose.” —New Statesman

“Allyson Pollock confirms suspicions that something is rotten in the state of the UK’s health system. NHS plc should be required reading for every clinician and patient in the UK.” —Lancet