Health in Danger — The Crisis in the Macmillan Press, £2.95 ONE OF the great strengths of this book is its assessment of the inadequacy in concept and the failures in practice of the NHS. Ittraces the history of medical services in Britain from the atrocities of the Poor Law to the failure of the NHS 'thirty years on' and outlines a socialist SWP, gives comprehensive Taxing Du Cocall SEVICE While the This encompasses cheapness of the service to capitalism, Imorove class the undemo cratic structure of the NHS, Its sexism towards women, the alienation of the gripping account of the rise of militancy among health workers in the first half of the seventies. Drawing on action sheets and rank and file papers from the period, David Widgery, who is a member of the first really of these important struggles to date.
seriousness the Tories demands that health be armed detailed understanding of the size and scopeof the NHS; its social and political history, and the scale of the cuts, and their likely actual effects on the service.
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