The NHS: The Story So Far
This is a revised version of a book first published in 2018 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. The new version includes a chapter on the Covid pandemic.
It is really two books, interwoven with each other. The one is a very dense study of the events and administrative changes in the NHS over 70 years, set out in chronological order. Although I once worked for the Department of Health I found it difficult to digest this torrent of facts and dates and I still do not fully understand commissioning (which is shortly to be decommissioned). I would have appreciated more on the rationale behind these events.
The other part of the book is a series of personal and highly subjective contributions titled My NHS from hospital doctors, GPs, nurses and one journalist. The overall theme is that the NHS does an heroic job but is overstretched and underfunded.
