Not safe in their hands By making the NHS available for private profit, the government has undermined its foundations in notions of shared responsibility, reciprocity, and social solidarity

摘要

Since the current government came to power in May 2010, the NHS has been subjectto a steady and intensely subversive stream of adverse propaganda, which was initiated, quite deliberately, at a time of unprecedented public satisfaction with the service. Perversely, the indiscriminate condemnation has tended to obscure the undeniable occurrence of regrettable failures within the service and also to minimise the influence of system breakdowns that are continually exacerbated by the effects of financial stringency, the disruption of unnecessary structural "reform," and the adverse effects of austerity on the health of poorand vulnerable people.