On Martin Rossdale’s ‘Socialist Health Service?’ (NLR 36)
No socialist would quarrel with Dr Rossdale’s attempt to show that more is needed to develop the nhs than money, though financial starvation is not to be dismissed as merely ‘secondary’. Thus, as a result of campaigning by the Labour movement, the principle of screening for cervical cancer, which could save the lives of 2,500 women yearly, is now accepted. But the money is not available for a full service.