Understanding the NHS
eBook - ePub

Understanding the NHS

How to Get the Most from Our National Health Service

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding the NHS

How to Get the Most from Our National Health Service

About this book

The NHS is more than a good idea. It is beautiful. And it is you. The importance of the NHS – and the public’s affection for it – cannot be overstated, as seen through the COVID-19 pandemic. The author and his family of medics have lived and breathed the NHS, from before 1948, its birth and its history to date. But this book is for people who do not come from this medical background and do not have this life experience. Thus there are three target audiences. Firstly, it can contribute to A level study of the NHS, and career advice for 6th form students who are applying to university for a degree in healthcare. Secondly, it will educate health and social care professionals in training and in their early years. So they can start with the knowledge that the author had when he went to university in 1979. Thirdly, the book is for everyone else, who want to know how it all fits together, and in this way, improve their healthcare, and that of their family.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 History of NHS: Beginning and Consolidation
  10. Chapter 2 History of NHS: Modernisation
  11. Chapter 3 Services, Buildings and Funding
  12. Chapter 4 Staff and Training
  13. Chapter 5 Organisations
  14. Chapter 6 Specialists and Specialised Commissioning
  15. Chapter 7 Mental Health
  16. Chapter 8 Public Health
  17. Chapter 9 Research
  18. Chapter 10 The Digital NHS
  19. Chapter 11 Sorting out the NHS
  20. Chapter 12 The Future of the NHS
  21. Chapter 13 Glossary and Acronym-Buster
  22. Chapter 14 History of NHS Summary