Nurses for Reform Blog

I am looking forward to reading the new paper from Civitas, reported here in the Telegraph.  James Gubb, head of the Civitas Health Unit, has researched the way that NHS Trusts work with, or avoid working with, the private sector.

This should also make very interesting reading for the government. There has been a lot of spin around the health care reform that they are planning.  This report demonstrates that they will need to be determined and focused if they are to deliver on their promises to develop a health care system that is fit for the 21st Century.

I know that I have recommended this book before, but I make no apology for doing so again.  Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment: Self-Help in Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1948 written by Dr David Green of Civitas, is one of the most influential books that I have read on the provision of healthcare before the establishment of the NHS.

Given the changes that are coming our way with the NHS reforms proposed by Andrew Lansley, many opinion formers and indeed Union Officials could do with brushing up on some history!