Second of three reports examining the most turbulent period in the history of the National Health Service.
A Political Operation. Doctors and politicians tell presenter Niall Dickson the inside story of how the Government, led by Margaret Thatcher , reshaped the NHS in its own image and bulldozed through controversial reforms.
By 1990, the Government's advisers believed that pushing through the radical alterations in advance of the nextgeneral election would be a policy doomed to failure, giving Labour an ideal opportunityto strengthen its own position. Former health secretary Kenneth Clarke recalls the furious opposition from the medical profession and the tactics employed to quell it. Series producer Stewart Lansley ; Editor
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