The NHS by Susan Cohen

I have always had a fascination for the UK. My fascination for health care is more recent, but even then it is obvious and very interesting to see how different health care systems can be. I knew no better than the UK having free (well, tax payed) health care for everyone since somewhere after the Victorian era. This book gave a very interesting peek in how that system came to be, and how it evolved to what it is today.

The text is alternated with a lot of pictures, which makes you can get through this book in a short time. I like the way the pictures made the text easier to comprehend - I think (almost) every non-fiction book could use pictures to enhance the reading experience. That was very well done here. It did make me realise though, that it is also a short book. I would have loved more in-dept information, perhaps some expansion of what was told about the actual people experiencing it all, instead of what now sometimes felt like a brief overview.

All in all this is a very interesting book if you want to know more about the NHS, and do not have a lot of knowledge of how things evolved and were before how it is today.

I received a free copy through Netgalley. My opinions are my own.