The National Health Service: A Political History

by Charles Webster

Book Overview

The foundation of the National Health Service on 5 July 1948 was a momentous development in the history of the United Kingdom. Webster's political history is an entirely new and original examination of the NHS from its inception through to its management under the first term of the current Labour government, providing the necessary framewrork for assessing its future as we enter the new millennium.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192892967
• ISBN13: 9780192892966
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.