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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving by Gavin Francis
    Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving - by Gavin Francis

    £7.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800819252 | ISBN 10: 1800819250

    An urgent call-to-arms in defence of our NHS.  'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin  'Wonderful ... A heartbreaking chronicle of the NHS's near-demise, and a call to action' Leah Hazard  'Compassionate, cleve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It by Stephanie Snow (Editor)
    Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It - by Stephanie Snow (Editor)

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781802793468 | ISBN 10: 1802793461

    FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURT   Portion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.   A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the first time ever, the rich history of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist by Hassan Akkad
    Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist - by Hassan Akkad

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529059854 | ISBN 10: 1529059852

    'An extraordinary story that deals with the urgent issues of our era... a story about resilience, renewal' - Elif Shafak  A stunning testament to human strength, courage and compassion, Hope Not Fear shows that nobody is powerless to change t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Advantages of Nearly Dying by Michael Rosen
    The Advantages of Nearly Dying - by Michael Rosen

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739772291 | ISBN 10: 1739772296

    Michael Rosen was dangerously ill from COVID at the beginning of 2020 and as doctors told him, if he hadn’t received treatment, he would have ‘gone’.  While he was in hospital, 42% of the patients on his intensive care ward died. He spent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
    Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas - by Adam Kay

    £7.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529038620 | ISBN 10: 1529038626

    The number one Sunday Times bestseller in a new festive package, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt – now a major BBC TV series.  Christmas ... more

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  • Cover image of book NHS Under Siege: The Fight to Save it in the Age of Covid by John Lister & Jacky Davis plus expert contributors
    NHS Under Siege: The Fight to Save it in the Age of Covid - by John Lister & Jacky Davis plus expert contributors

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780850367775 | ISBN 10: 0850367778

    The NHS is in crisis. The past 12 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding have been disastrous.  John Lister and Jacky Davis look at the threat to the NHS posed by the combination of two years of a global pandemic and the relentless policies ... more

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  • Cover image of book Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS by Michael Rosen, illustrated by by Chris Riddell
    Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS - by Michael Rosen, illustrated by by Chris Riddell

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529109467 | ISBN 10: 1529109469

    A national treasure's journey to the brink and back.   'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50:50 chance.'  Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic by Rachel Clarke
    Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic - by Rachel Clarke

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349144566 | ISBN 10: 0349144567

    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA   How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unwell patient in quarantine and their distraught family outsid ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Doctor Will See You Now: The Highs and Lows of My Life as an NHS GP by Amir Khan
    The Doctor Will See You Now: The Highs and Lows of My Life as an NHS GP - by Amir Khan

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529107418 | ISBN 10: 1529107415

    The Sunday Times Bestseller updated with a new chapter on Amir's experiences during the coronavirus pandemic and being on the frontlines of the historic vaccination effort.   60 hours a week 240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis We ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Radical Practice in Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Princes Park Health Centre by Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones
    A Radical Practice in Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Princes Park Health Centre - by Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781910580561 | ISBN 10: 1910580562

    "At its best Princes Park Health Centre was Nye Bevan’s dream fulfilled: health care, free for all at their point of need, from the cradle to the grave."(Chas Clegg, district nurse) Princes Park Health Centre, in Liverpool 8, was founded b ... more

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  • Cover image of book These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS by Deborah Alma and Dr Katie Amiel (Editor)
    These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS - by Deborah Alma and Dr Katie Amiel (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911048404 | ISBN 10: 1911048406

    Fearless, reverent and incredibly touching, These Are the Hands celebrates the NHS and the strength and compassion of the people who keep its heart beating. With contributions from leading UK poets, this beautiful anthology illuminates and supports t ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS by Owen Sheers
    To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS - by Owen Sheers

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571348084 | ISBN 10: 0571348084

    July 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. Owen Sheers, the author of Pink Mist and the BAFTA nominated The Green Hollow, has created a virtuosic 'film-poem' to coincide with the Vox Pictures/BBC production broadcast to ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps (Second Edition) by Youssef El-Gingihy
    How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps (Second Edition) - by Youssef El-Gingihy

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781789041781 | ISBN 10: 1789041783

    The blueprint that the government does not want you to see. The story of how your NHS was sold off and why you will have to buy private health insurance soon.  Events have spiralled since the first edition of How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Check Up: Our NHS at 70 by Mark Thomas
    Check Up: Our NHS at 70 - by Mark Thomas

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786825018 | ISBN 10: 1786825015

    Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS, award-winning comedian and activist Mark Thomas takes a look at our NHS, what state it’s in, where it’s going, and what we need to do to keep it. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Life in My Hands by Rachel Clarke
    Your Life in My Hands - by Rachel Clarke

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786068651 | ISBN 10: 1786068656

    To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life? To toughen up the hard way, through repeated exposure to life-and-death situations, clinging on until your skills, expertise and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Picked Up, Patched Up and Sent Home: Why I Love the NHS by Carl Walker
    Picked Up, Patched Up and Sent Home: Why I Love the NHS - by Carl Walker

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780719814433 | ISBN 10: 071981443x

    In this personal, irreverent book, Carl Walker represents the average stories of average people whose lives are routinely and often unnoticeably held together by the people who work in the NHS. These are the people who patch us up, sew us up, radiate ... more

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  • Cover image of book NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception by Jacky Davis, John Lister and David Wrigley
    NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception - by Jacky Davis, John Lister and David Wrigley

    £10.95   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780850366273 | ISBN 10: 0850366275

    In 2010 David Cameron's coalition government discarded pre-election promises about the NHS. Instead they imposed savage spending cuts and pushed through 'reforms' which put at risk the health and lives of all of us. As a result the NHS is now in cris ... more

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  • Cover image of book NHS SOS: How the NHS Was Betrayed - And How We Can Save It by Jacky Davis and Raymond Tallis (Editors)
    NHS SOS: How the NHS Was Betrayed - And How We Can Save It - by Jacky Davis and Raymond Tallis (Editors)

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780743288 | ISBN 10: 1780743289

    The Coalition Government passed into law an unprecedented assault on the NHS. Doctors, unions, the media, even politicians who claimed to be stalwart defenders failed to protect it. Now the effect of those devastating reforms are beginning to be felt ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys & Stewart Player
    The Plot Against the NHS - by Colin Leys & Stewart Player

    £12.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780850366792 | ISBN 10: 0850366798

    What will Mr Lansley's new health care market mean for patients? Is there really no alternative? Do the coalition government's plans for the NHS really mean a big change of policy? Or do they just bring into the open what New Labour was already doing ... more

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  • Cover image of book NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care by Allyson Pollock
    NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care - by Allyson Pollock

    £20.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781844675395 | ISBN 10: 1844675394

    Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of the NHS's most eloquent and passionate defenders, te ... more

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