Forfeiting Healthcare's Soul?

Can everyone win from private involvement in healthcare without the necessary or even probable loss of healthcare’s ‘soul’, that spirit of solidarity and service which is meant to characterise a socialised healthcare service? This is an existential question for patients, practitioners and the public in general. Incorporating issues of trust and risk, it goes to the roots of the social contract which exists between healthcare professionals and the population at large. View Joshua Hordern's full talk in the video on the right.