Confuse and Conceal - The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres Player Stewart Leys Colin Confuse and Conceal - The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres 128pp Merlin Press 9780850366099 0850366097 [Formula: see text].

The main thrust of this book is that independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) were set up as a covert way of introducing private providers into the NHS, rather than offering patients more choice of where to receive surgical care.