Abolish the NHS Internal market
The 1997 Labour party General Election Manifesto included the following commitments. ‘if the Conservatives are …
The Liberal Democrat view of the Competition regulations
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Change and markets in health care
If there were a free market for health, the NHS would not exist. Even countries …
The real story behind the NHS changes: The US/EU Free Trade Agreement
The NHS changes have been both promoted and fought as a national issue. However, they …
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, …