Adult social care: is privatisation irreversible?
The outsourcing of public services to private companies is a model in disarray. The impetus …
Policy options from North East SHA Seminar Jan 19th 2018
There is wide agreement that it would be beneficial to integrate social services and …
What can Councillors do about health?
A video of this presentation is available The Health and Well-Being Board A forum for discussion …
Paying for over the counter items
In 1948 the leaflet distributed to every household about the forthcoming NHS said “Your doctor …
Urgent appeal for donations for NHS judicial review
As many of you may know, NHS England’s latest project is to establish Accountable Care …
What can councillors do about health?
Our meeting yesterday at the Labour Local Government Conference captured on video Labour Local Government …
Taking on The Legal Loan Sharks Of The Public Sector: The Fight For A Pfi Windfall Tax
WHAT IS PFI? Since 1992 and to the present day the Private Finance Initiative (“PFI”) …
On Health Inequalities, Davos, and Deadly Neoliberalism
‘If livin’ were a thing that money could buy / The rich would live and …
Join the fight to save the NHS before it’s too late
This winter crisis is entirely of the government’s making and they must be held to …
How and why the State’s purchasing power should be used to renegotiate PFI deals
A Smith Institute report recently set out a “progressive” programme to reset the relationship between government and …
Joining up Health and Social Care
An update on the work relating to the joining-up of health and social care in …
Democratising the NHS
Instead of Accountable Care Organisations The NHS in England is being reorganised, yet again. Jeremy …