Labour Policy Forum discussions.
Below there are links to various documents produced by the Labour Party and our contributions to discussions within the Party in reverse chronological order. Unless otherwise stated we have reproduced the official text without comment, although usually omitting the pictures (which, sadly, are usually stock pictures contributing nothing to the discussion). If nothing is mentioned about geography after 1999 the documents apply to England only. Our responses to the Party’s processes are on our own policy page. Official access to some of these documents is through the Labour Party site, but is restricted to Party members.
Since 1997 policy making takes place through the National Policy Forum and the Partnership in Power process. We submitted our views on this process in Extending Labour Party Democracy in September 2007. Before 1997 resolutions were debated at national conference. In either case they contribute to the party manifesto, of which there is a collection at Keele University back to 1945. If we go back to 1900 the only health demands in the Labour manifesto were “No Compulsory Vaccination” and “Public Control of the Liquor Traffic”.
- Labour’s NHS plans – 2 views 2023-08-06
- 22 May: Labour on NHS crisis. 2023-05-22
- Wes Streeting’s talk to the King’s Fund. 2023-04-21
- In response to Keir Starmer 2023-01-30
- SHA response to use of private health companies 2023-01-11
- Review of ‘A Radical Practice in Liverpool: the rise, fall and rise of the Princes Park Health centre’ Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones. 2021-08-02
- Lets not forget prevention (yet again) or measles and flu may come to bite us 2020-06-21
- New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 2019-10-16
- Reclaim Social Care 2019-07-07
- Phone app that could destroy our GP system 2018-12-13
- Re: The Labour Party Conference 2018, Liverpool 2018-09-26
- Consultation survey for the NHS England Integrated Care Provider Contracts – all answers are here 2018-09-24
- Labour Party Conference 1947 2018-09-22
- Labour’s Five Tests For The Government 2018-06-13
- You’re joking! Not another re-organisation? 2018-06-03
- Labour’s direction for health care 2018-03-13
- Health and Social Care: Tackling health inequalities 2018-03-05
- There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here 2018-01-14
- Immediate Priorities for the NHS and future Labour Party policies for the NHS 2017-12-23
- Sharon Hodgson’s speech on Public Health Priorities 2017-11-27
- Jon Ashworth’s speech at the Health Campaigns Together conference 2017-11-13
- Now for some real politics 2017-10-09
- Labour Has Committed To Renationalise Our NHS 2017-10-06
- The NHS – winning the case for investment 2017-09-04
- Who’s serious about the NHS? Reviewing the Labour and Conservative pledges 2017-06-05
- Healthcare for all 2017-05-16
- Speech to Unison’s conference 2017-04-27
- Jon Ashworth at Socialist Health Association AGM Sat 11 March 2017 2017-03-27
- Labour’s Health And Social Care consultation 2017 2017-03-19
- Policy consultation – health and wellbeing 2017-02-03
- Corbyn Health policy 2016-12-15
- Dear Jon 2016-10-13
- Speech to Labour Annual Conference 2016-10-02
- Labour’s vision for the health service 2016-09-29
- Labour Party Conference NHS resolution 2016-09-28
- Secure our NHS and social care 2016-09-20
- Jeremy Corbyn’s vision for the NHS will rescue it from Tory dismantling 2016-09-02
- Speech on the NHS 2016-08-31
- Labour Must not Go Back to the Future – Again 2016-08-30
- West Midlands Health Briefing 2016-05-04
- What is on Offer for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Assembly Elections? 2016-04-26
- Mental Health: the way forward 2016-04-04
- Speech to the Nuffield Trust 2016-03-05
- Jos Bell proposing Labour party conference resolution 2015-10-07
- Labour Health Policy 2015 2015-10-01
- A holistic approach to health and care 2015-09-24
- Labour puts mental health centre stage 2015-09-20
- Fight for Our NHS 2015-09-17
- New challenges or old for Labour health policy? 2015-09-15
- Labour Leadership and health 2015-08-21
- A Better Plan for the NHS Health and Care 2015-04-11
- Plans, Views, and our policy 2015-02-25
- Labour’s 10 Year Plan for Health and Care 2015-02-24
- Is the private sector always bad? 2015-01-30
- Labours’ vision for health and social care is clear – lets see what the others have got 2015-01-29
- Labour’s Ten Year Plan for Health and Care 2015-01-29
- What Plan? 2015-01-28
- Protecting Children, Empowering All 2015-01-19
- History (as interpreted by Irwin) Repeats Itself? 2015-01-12
- Nick Clegg’s claims about Labour’s NHS record 2014-12-15
- An NHS With Time To Care 2014-12-10
- A wellbeing programme for Labour 2013-07-06
- Why Free School Meals for All? 2013-06-26
- Evidence to the Labour Party Investigation into Health Service Organisation 2013-06-16
- Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 2013-04-27
- Andy Burnham’s plan for care, and questions that arise from it 2013-04-16
- Andy Burnham’s talk to Tower Hamlets Labour Party 2012-11-23
- COMPOSITE 4- Health & Social Care 2012-10-19
- The voice of experience 2012-10-13
- Labour Party Policy for Disabled People 2012-09-28
- Labour Health Policy for 2015 2012-09-21
- Labour Party Contemporary Motions 2012 2012-09-11
- Improving the Health of the Nation 2012-08-23
- Labour Health Policy Consultation 2012-08-02
- An Alternative Vision for Health Policy 2012-08-01
- Labour should support personal health budgets 2012-07-26
- Labour’s National Policy Forum 2012-06-17
- Nye Bevan responds to Labour’s NPF health questions 2012-06-14
- How can services be made more accountable to patients, public and staff? 2012-06-06
- How can the NHS promote better mental health and well-being across the population? 2012-06-06
- Labour Party Policy consultation June 2012 2012-06-06
- Whose National Health Service is it? 2012-04-27
- A new health policy for Labour 2012-03-29
- Health 2000 — SHA’s Response 1994-04-04
- The time to hesitate is through 1980-11-07
- NOTES FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS 1943-10-15
- National Service for Health 1943-04-18
- Health Service debate 1934 Labour Party Conference 1934-10-14
- A State Health Service 1934-09-14
- For Socialism and Peace 1934-09-14
- Labour, the Children’s Champion 1923-01-27
- Labour’s Health and Care Policy Summary 2014-10-15
- Labour’s Health and Care Policy 2014-09-08
- National Policy Forum Report 2014-07-20
- Labour’s Challenge 2014-06-30
- Health Policy Amendments 2014-06-20
- Access to GPs within 48 hours 2014-06-09
- Labour’s Policy Dilemma 2014-06-06
- Dignity in Dying’s submission to the Health and Care Policy consultation 2014-05-21
- Ed Miliband’s speech on Labour health policy 2014-05-13
- Proposed amendments to Stronger, Safer Communities 2014-05-11
- Proposed amendments to Work and Business 2014-05-11
- Proposed amendments to Better Politics 2014-05-10
- The NHS at the 2015 election 2014-05-06
- Labour’s public health policies 2014-05-04
- Labour’s nanny state plan for drinkers 2014-05-04
- The Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 2014-05-01
- Proposed amendments to Labour Mental Health Policy 2014-05-01
- Future options for the NHS 2014-04-30
- Breaking the Link between Disability and Poverty 2014-04-29
- Labour Party Disabled Members Group policy proposals 2014-04-28
- Proposed amendments to Labour Health Policy 2014-04-28
- Labour policies to tackle the social determinants of health? 2014-04-15
- Labour’s Health And Social Care Policy Consultation 2014-04-10
- Health and Care Policy Consultation 2014-03-19
- One Person One Team One System 2014-03-12
- Contribution to Labour Health Policy discussion 2013-12-02
- A One Nation Approach To Health And Social Care 2013-10-30
- Keep it Simple: whole person care 2013-10-23
- Labour Party Conference Resolution on the NHS 2013-09-27
- After Brighton – the Hard Work 2013-09-27
- The Future of the NHS in England 2012-09-30
- Good and bad in the local NHS 2012-06-06
- The case for making health inequalities a top priority 2013-05-08
- What would you list as the key principles for any health and social care service? 2012-06-06
- 21st Century NHS and Social Care – Delivering Integration 2013-06-06
- Labour’s NHS Mission 2013-06-24
- #healthdebate 2012-10-01
- Labour Party Policy consultation 2012-05-18
- Developing Labour Health Policy 2012-03-12
- Patient Experience 2012-06-06
- Can we learn something from America? 2013-02-24
- The Future of the NHS 2012-10-02
- Health policy and the NHS: choices for a Labour Government 2013-07-09
- Policy Discussions on Health and Social Care 2013-06-23
- The So-What issue 2013-03-20
- Future options for the NHS 2013-03-10
- 1997 Labour Party Policy 2013-03-28
- ‘Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st Century 2013-01-24
- Fabian ’13 Conference – ‘Next State’ ‘A New NHS: Repeal The Act, But Then What?’ 2013-01-14
- A public sector NHS ‘as if people mattered’ 2013-02-28
- Dreams and Reality 2013-03-05
- The New NHS 2013-02-14
- Abolish the NHS Internal market 2013-02-28
- Labour is the party for our NHS 2013-01-23
- Andy Burnham MP’s speech to Labour Party Annual Conference 2013
- Labour Party Conference Resolution on the NHS 2013
- Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st Century
- Labour’s Policy Review: Children, Food and Obesity 2013
- Composite 4 Health and Social Care October 2012
- The role of the private sector in the NHS Jan 2012
- What Next for Labour
- Labour Leadership Contest 2010 Health policies
- SHA proposed amendments – including notes on what happened to them;
- Concensus on Public Services and Health
- Partnership in Power second year Final Consultation document for Health September 2007
- Consultation Document Health National Policy Forum July 2007
- Money Changers dismissed from the Temple (in Scotland and Wales) 2007
- Labour Party health policy and the Brown Government – what the leadership candidates said about health
- Labour Party Conference resolutions on Health September 2006
- Welsh Policy Forum Consultation Document Health and Social Care October 2006
- Labour Party NPF consultation document on health 2006
- Health Policy Commission Work Programme 2006
- Welsh Policy Forum Consultation Document Health and Social Care – Second Stage Consultation December 2005
- Nation’s Health and Social Change Pat Hewitt October 2005
- Future of the Health Service – Composite 6 Agreed at Party Conference September 2005
- The Nation’s Health and Social Change Pat Hewitt September 2005
- National Policy Forum document on Health July 2005
- Review of opposition health policies April 2005
- Welsh Policy Forum Consultation Document December 2004
- Improving health and education September 2004 The National Policy Forum documents agreed at Brighton Conference contain a great deal relevant to public health and health care in sections about other policies. These are extracted here.
- Public Services – Tony Blair January 2004
- Localism: The need for a new settlement – Alan Milburn
- Resolutions put to Conference 2003
- Health Policy Commission Report to Conference 2003
- John Reid MP, Secretary of State for Health, speeches (2003-2005)
- John Reid’s first speech on health 2003
- Improving Health and Social Care Consultation Document May 2003
- Health Policy Commission Newsletter May 2003
- National Policy Forum Interim Document February 2003
- Composite 2: Public Services October 2002 The two tier workforce
- Report to Party Conference September 2002
- SHA Response September 2002
- Improving Health and Social Care Consultation Document March 2002
- Alan Milburn MP, Secretary of State for Health, speeches (1998-2003)
- Composite 4 – Public Services October 2001
- National Policy Forum Report 1998
- Labour Party Health Care Working Party report 1973
- A scheme for a state medical service Labour Party May 1942
- Labour and the Hospitals November 1938 (exact status of this is not clear)