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Cuts Cost Lives
Last updated on June 15th, 2017 at 03:59 pm It is both a sobering thought and a salutary warning that on the day we were setting up our first blog a tower block in London went up in flames, costing...
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The Americanisation of the NHS, happening right here, right now
Last updated on August 30th, 2017 at 01:09 pm At approximately 2000 words this is a long read. It is designed to be read without needing to click through the links, but they will provide evidence...
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Post-Crash Economics and ‘Professor’ George Osborne
Last updated on July 3rd, 2017 at 09:45 am What is ‘the economy’? If you listened to George Osborne, or every Chancellor since 1979, you would be forgiven for gaining the impression that it is all...
View ArticleCorporate Culture, Public Service and Democracy
Last updated on July 12th, 2017 at 01:38 pmAre governments fundamentally law makers using their legislative powers to shape the country’s social structures and balance the competing needs of the people...
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Is the Commonwealth Fund’s Mirror, Mirror report a distorted lens?
Last updated on July 15th, 2017 at 04:25 pm The NHS as a public service accessible to all is often described as one of the greatest humanitarian achievements of the 20th century. Incremental and...
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Why we need a written constitution
Last updated on October 11th, 2017 at 02:58 pm This blog has been written by Gavin Barker from Cornwall. Gavin addresses the issues of democratic accountability and the protections that need building...
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The CQC, social care and the road to privatisation
Last updated on October 13th, 2017 at 01:16 pm We are used to seeing catastrophic headlines and quotes about the NHS and social care, but it is never very clear exactly what is envisaged in the...
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Social housing and the sale of public land – a conflict of interest?
Last updated on October 17th, 2017 at 12:16 pm The Grenfell tower fire brought the issue of unused property into stark relief as the council failed to respond promptly to rehousing the affected tenants...
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The Naylor Review – where it fits into NHS England’s 5 Year plan
Last updated on October 17th, 2017 at 10:27 pm In June 2017 we wrote an article for the National Health Action Party about the consequences for the NHS of the Naylor Review. In light of the revelation...
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Making a Virtue of variation? STPs and the fragmentation of the English NHS.
Last updated on November 24th, 2017 at 05:42 pm England’s 44 Sustainability & Transformation footprints Reprinted, unedited, with kind permission of the author, this blog was originally published...
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A maths problem to solve: 44 x ACO does not = 1 x NHS
Last updated on January 15th, 2018 at 10:20 pm What’s all the fuss about STPs and the ACOs that are being introduced? Isn’t this just another one of the NHS’ endless re-dis-organisations? Is it...
View ArticleRhetoric v. Reality – Can the new models of maternity care deliver a safe...
Every child who is still born is a personal tragedy for the family. Sharon Hodgson’s moving personal story in the House of Commons this week is testimony to the tragedy. For a health service it is part...
View ArticleWill the written evidence to the Health Select Committee bring about the end...
The NHS’ Sustainability and Transformation process has surely hit the buffers. Last week three separate events each raised serious and considerable doubts about the viability of continuing the project....
View ArticleA Cautionary Tale for our Times
‘Back to the Thirties’ by Charles Webster (previously Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford). First published in September 1984 in the public health journal...
View ArticleAnother ‘fudge’ for the NHS as Simon Stevens takes over NHS Improvement
On Friday 1 March, Alastair McLellan, editor of the HSJ tweeted “OK HEALTH POLICY WORLD – ARE YOU SITTING DOWN? If not, I suggest you do.” This was followed by …
View ArticleAll Party Parliamentary Group Health in All Policies Written Submissions to...
Submissions for written evidence closed on 22 March 2019. The following submissions were received. Click on the names for PDFs. 14 February 2019 Karen Taylor John Kierans Michelle Smith Jan …
View ArticleAll Party Parliamentary Group Health in All Policies 2019 (current) Inquiry
APPG Health in All Policies Inquiry 2019 – 3 Years On: Assessing the Impact of the Welfare Reform & Work Act 2016 on Children and Disabled Adults. In 2015, the …
View ArticleCorporate takeover of the NHS? Move on, no comment, nothing to see here.
This article, written by Public Matters’ Deborah Harrington and Jessica Ormerod, was first published on Friday 10 May in openDemocracy under the title ‘The latest multi-billion pound move in …
View ArticleDear Dr Williams, Primary Care Networks aren’t really nationalising GPs, are...
On Wednesday 8 May The Guardian published an article by Dr Paul Williams MP ‘As a doctor, I say it’s time to nationalise GP surgeries’. As a patient, Public Matters’ …
View ArticleWe need to talk about ‘Integrated Care’ in the NHS
Integrated Care is the most recent re-naming of Accountable Care: the system currently being implemented in the NHS in England and which is derived from the US. This blog addresses …
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