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Book SynopsisThe NHS is in crisis. The past 10 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding has been disastrous. This book looks at the threat to the NHS posed by the combination of two years of a global pandemic with the relentless policies pursued by Tory-led governments since 2010.
Table of ContentsPart 1: 1. How did we get to this? The state of our NHS after a decade of decline; 2. The Decade of 'austerity', 2010-2019; 3. Austerity and the staffing crisis in health and care, 2010-2019; 4. 2020 - Covid crisis worsens an already bad situation; 5: 2021 - Post-Covid crisis: NHS rolling backwards on non-Covid treatment; 6: 2021 - onwards: no end to starvation of resources Inadequate spending review; 7: The growing costs of privatisation; 8: Repairing the damage and restoring the NHS. Part 2: Short expert contributions on key issues: David Wrigley, Deputy Chair British Medical Association, on primary care; Neena Modi, Prof. Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College, on child and adolescent health, including mental health; Jan Shortt, General Secretary of the National Pensioners Convention, on care for the elderly; Michael Mansfield, barrister QC, on holding the government to account; Martin McKee, Prof. European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, on public health; Sara Gorton, Head of Health UNISON, Privatisation, on pay and conditions of NHS staff; Colenzo Jarret-Thorpe, National Officer Unite, the Health & Care Bill, on ambulance and other staff; Rehana Azam, National Secretary Public Services GMB, on the Covid enquiry and outsourced staff; Roy Lilley, health policy analyst, on management views; Roger Kline, Research fellow at Middlesex University, on equalities and BAME; Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary, National Education Union, on Covid, education and schools; Sir Michael Marmot, Prof. of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, on health inequality. About the Authors: Dr John Lister has been a health journalist for 38 years, Editor of Health Campaigns Together and The Lowdown, a founder member of Keep Our NHS Public, a public speaker, and the author of books on the NHS and global health policy; Dr Jacky Davis is a consultant radiologist in north London. She is a founder member of the Keep Our NHS Public campaign, a member of the BMA UK Council and recently sat on the panel of the People's Covid Inquiry. She is co-author of NHS SOS and NHS For Sale.
