Side Effects - How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way – And How We Fix It

About the author

Sir David Haslam is former chair of NICE, former president of the Royal College of GPs, and former president of the British Medical Association. He began his illustrious career as a GP.

Summary

With a single drug in the UK currently costing £340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our old?

As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it. Informed by patient stories and data from across the world - from US big pharma to Britain's NHS - this is an urgent and often moving examination of our most important asset: our health.

Foreword

In the shadow of the pandemic , how do we make a healthcare system that is affordable, effective and fair?

Product details

• Authors: David Haslam
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 25.08.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9781786495372
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-537-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine, MEDICAL / Caregiving, Popular medicine & health, Public health & preventive medicine, Home nursing and caring, Health systems & services, Nursing and ancillary services, Health systems and services, Medicolegal issues, Clinical and internal medicine