A Revision of Expectations
Richard Horton: Notes on the NHS, 2 July 1998
The National Health Service: A Political History
by Charles Webster.
Oxford, 233 pp., £9.99, April 1998,0 19 289296 7 Show More
by Charles Webster.
Oxford, 233 pp., £9.99, April 1998,
“... It began straight away, when Patrick Jenkin, her first Health Minister, rejected the report of Douglas Black, Chief Scientist at the DHSS, on inequalities in health. Black provided a radical analysis of what the NHS had to do to restore the notion of a universal and comprehensive service distributed according to need. Matters got progressively worse. In a ... ”