Concerns of the wider public health community about the impact of the health & social care act on the NHS and it's implications for health improvement and inequalities.

摘要

BASCD members who read the BDJ of 10th March will be aware that the Association has written to the Secretary of State for Health reflecting the concerns of the wider public health community about the impact of the Health & Social Care Act on the NHS and it's implications for health improvement and inequalities. The same issue carried an Editorial by Paul Batchelor, a past president of BASCD, setting out these concerns in more detail and describing a future NHS that may resemble the system in the USA, with all its costs and shortcomings.