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Recommended reading: books and articlesBooks and articles which explore in depth the issues confronting health care provisionin Britain and around the world. The NHS After 60 - For patients or profits?by John Lister
This new critical history of the National Health Service is published to mark the 60th anniversary of our most popular and universal public service in July 2008. Author John Lister has been a prominent and outspoken health campaigner, as Information Director of London Health Emergency, for over 24 years. He argues strongly that despite so-called "reforms" that have begun to fragment and privatise sections of the NHS since 2000, there is a great deal still to defend. Tony Benn says: "This is a very significant book, meticulously researched, and intensely readable. It warns us all about what is on the agenda – the steady privatisation of the National Health Service. "Everyone should read this book, and we must get together to ensure that the privatisation it warns of does not happen." Dr Julian Tudor Hart says: "John Lister has written a book which everyone interested or active in health care needs to read. He has unrivalled experience of campaigning to defend the NHS as a public service economy, originally lifted out of the marketplace, but ever since 1979, steadily opened by governments toward unrestrained pursuit of profit by any company that can find a promising business opportunity. "There should be a world of difference between the NHS economy serving public need, and the business economy serving private greed. This book will help you to re-establish that difference." The new book is published by Middlesex University Press, at a cover price of £25. ISBN 978 1 904750 30 7 Special Offer: To obtain your copy at the special price of £20 (saving £5 on the cover price), download this order form and send it with your payment to Middlesex University Press. Remember to quote the promotional code LHE1 to qualify for the reduced price. The book can also be ordered online from Middlesex University Press www.mupress.co.uk Health Policy in Europe: Contemporary dilemmas and challenges
Edited by Alexis Benos, Hans Ulrich Deppe and John ListerA roundup of health policies across Europe. This book is an effort to describe and critically analyse the recent experience of various European countries and discuss the dilemmas and challenges that confront health policy and policy-makers in this period of time and geopolitical setting, providing concrete evidence from various countries. Specific chapters address issues in Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, and Palestine, with an additional comparative study of the situation in the market- dominated health care system in the United States. It is produced as an aftermath of the productive exchanges during the XIV Conference of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE), held in Thessaloniki in May 2005, with papers subsequently edited through a peer review process. Published by the International Association of Health Policy Europe (IAHPE) www.healthp.org Special Offer: a limited number of copies are available directly from LHE at the special price of £10, saving £5 off the usual price. To secure your copy, send a cheque with your name and address to: BCM London Health Emergency, London WC1N 3XX.
Health Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way?
LHE supported John Lister in his five-year doctoral study of health care reforms around the world, which has been published as a 350-page book Health Policy Reform: Driving the Wrong Way?. This critical guide to the global 'health reform' industry offers a readable and accessible understanding of health policies around the world, with a unique analysis covering not only the wealthiest countries of Europe, north America and Australasia, but also the poorer developing and so-called "middle income" countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America.Driving the Wrong Way? is published by Middlesex University Press www.mupress.co.uk.
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