FEASIBLE SOCIALISM

Julian Tudor Hart MB BChir DCH FRCP FRCGP

The National Health Service, past, present & future

• Introduction
• Foreword

• PART 1 : THE PAST

1. Origins of the National Health Service
2. From all according to their ability, to all according to their need
3. Underprovision and oversale
4. Choking their mouths with power

• PART 2 : THE PRESENT

5. Consumerism, science, and the language of production
6. Consultations as units of production
7. Primary care: potential wealth, actual poverty
8. Managed competition
9. Who cares ?

• PART 3 : THE FUTURE

10. Professional accountability: who to, what for?
11. Purchasers, providers, and the future of clinical autonomy
12. Participative democracy
13. Feasible socialism

• Glossary & Abbreviations

This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr Hugh Faulkner, 1912-1994, chairman of the Medical Practitioners' Union, lifelong supporter of the SHA, and unacknowledged principal author of the 1966 general practitioners' Charter, the most (many might claim the only) successful reform of the NHS since 1948.