Dreams and Reality
The article by Alex Scott-Samuel was a wonderful vision of how a health service ought …
Keep Campaigning
The idea of clinicians standing as NHS Candidates and opposing sitting MPs or Councillors sounds …
What the NHS means to me
Joan Hibberd, age 91, shares her memories of the start of the NHS in 1948. …
The New NHS
Speech to Reform Conference Tuesday 12th February 2013 by Liz Kendall MP, Shadow Minister for Care …
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History
I INTRODUCTION I am greatly flattered to be invited to deliver the 1998 annual lecture …
Reply to Sean Worth – Competition and Choice in the NHS
A response to Sean’s article on Competition and Choice in the NHS by Irwin Brown Let’s get …
Cost of the Market to the NHS
The definitive work on this was in a publication in about 1995 entitled “In Practice …
Do Markets Kill Patients?
With another care scandal across our media we now have some suggesting that the root …
To Market! To Market!
This article was first published by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest and …
A Mixed Economy in the NHS
In Hackney the NHS funds more than 100 mental health organisations, ranging from support from …
The Myth of Privatisation and Choice in Social Care
I originally wrote a version of this article for Labour Left in September 2012 following …
Amend in haste, repent at leisure – NHS section 75 saga continues
This article was originally posted on the “Open Democracy” site here. The government today …