Markets Regulation and Ethics
One of the government’s main arguments for its current reforms of the NHS is that …
The dangers of marketisation
Taken from the Health Service Journal The NHS is drifting into a world where key …
How “comprehensive” is the NHS? Or “Something’s gotta give”?
Many in the discussion would wish you to concentrate on the phrase, “free-at-the-point-of-use”. This is …
Myths and Legends about NHS tendering
Recent claims about the impact of Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act …
Labour is the party for our NHS
Between 1997 and 2010 our NHS improved in terms of everything that could be properly …
NHS The way forward
The 1990 Health and Social Care Act, the brainchild of Margaret Thatcher, introduced an internal …
Public health must lead a public system
The NHS may have been designed by a Liberal, William Beveridge, but it remains the …
Basic principles of the German health care system
This explication of the German health care system is derived from presentations by Prof. Karl Lauterbach, …
Zero Hours Contracts in the NHS and Social Care
This is NHS Check report no 12 originally published by Labour’s Shadow Health Team in …
Honesty about the NHS
As widely predicted the Tory press launches yet another attack on the NHS based on …
Reconfiguration – Closing Services
Does closing hospitals save money? Does reconfiguring services save money and improve care? Do we …
Key issues concerning the country
Ipsos MORI’s Issues Index is conducted monthly and provides an overview of the key issues concerning …