Side Effects by David Haslam published by Atlantic Books
Do we think enough about what healthcare systems are actually trying to achieve? Even if we have a clear goal, are we going about achieving it the right way? Or are we creating unmet demand and medicalising everyday life?
In this original and thought-provoking book, David Haslam explores what good healthcare should be and how we should pay for it.
Informed by his work as a GP, his leadership roles at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, his personal experience of cancer as well as patient stories and data from across the world – it is an urgent and moving examination of our most important asset: our health.
The Daily Mail described the book as a ‘provocative prescription’ to cure the healthcare system. While Helen Ward, professor of public health at Imperial College reviewed the book for the Guardian newspaper and said:
The book gathers these strands together to paint a compelling picture of how healthcare has lost its way. Having made his diagnosis, Haslam outlines a prescription, albeit recognising that “no single solution will address all these issues”. This is refreshing, since so many commentators suggest simplistic fixes.
Get a copy of ‘Side Effects: How our healthcare lost its way – and how we fix it’ from Atlantic Books
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