How this has come about
- to the point where even the shrinking core of free NHS hospital services is being handed over to private
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Presents an analysis of the transition from a comprehensive & universal service to New Labour's 'mixed economy of health care', in which hospitals with foundation status, loosely supervised by an independent regulator, are run on largely market principles. This book also aims to demystify slogans such as 'diversity' & 'local ownership'. ...

Nia & Gerry the Giraffe are taken to school by her father & older brother Huw. Gerry is to look after her on her first day at school, & Huw shows her where to hang her coat & where the important places are. By the days end Nia has made friends with Kabo, whose grandmother lives in Africa. ...

Marilyn Monroe & Joseph Cotten are an ill-suited couple staying in the cottage next to happy newlyweds Casey Adams & Jean Peters near Niagara Falls. While sightseeing, the newlyweds see Monroe kissing her young lover (Richard Allen) & hear them plot to kill her husb&, making it look like suicide. When the latter goes missing, Monroe is asked to identify a body & discovers it's her lover. Her husband's vengeance threatens them all... ...

From its inception as a horsecar line in 1874, the Niagara, St Catharines, & Toronto Railway is one of the foremost examples in Canada of an intensively developed & closely integrated transportation system. This book tells the story of one of the area's primary people mover operations in the days before automobile travel became dominant. ...