ABSTRACT
The mental health trust still struggles with the effects of its rapid expansion, and its primary purpose is no longer to provide mental health services. And the primary care service was legislated out of existence to be replaced by local and regional commissioning and by practices operating under the logics of 'patient choice' and 'any qualified provider'. Moreover, as we continue to come into contact with National Health Services (NHS), we notice the rapid increase in the names of commercial providers appearing in small type to the top right of increasingly large blue NHS ignage. In September 2015, the newly elected leader of the UK Labour Party, for example, announced his party's potential to be a 'force for humanity' and one against 'grotesque global inequity'. Perhaps resonating with Cicero's 'highest law' and Aneurin Bevan's principles for welfare and social justice, the new leader's acceptance speech declared a desire for a political movement.
