Will Wes Streeting listen to health campaigners?
The views of Irwin Nash on the government’s recently launched NHS consultation Many campaigners will react with despair and disappointment … Read more
NHS reform
Darzi rides again
Lord Darzi may be best known as a high-flying surgeon, but he is also quite keen on knocking out reports … Read more
Tough choices for NHS saddled with local deficits
Lord Darzi has delivered a stark report on the NHS’s unprecedented problems. The Prime Minister responded with a commitment to producing a … Read more
Wes Streeting turns to the ‘usual suspects’: why no involvement of trade unions and patients?
When Tony Blair’s government took office in 1997, every one of the newly-appointed health ministers who had worked with campaigners … Read more
Doctors give Darzi hard facts on primary care
As Wes Streeting’s review kicks off, there is growing evidence on all sides that Labour’s promise to “bring back the … Read more
Restoring the People’s NHS: Tony O’Sullivan
In the countdown to this year’s General Election, one thing is evident: the NHS will be one of the most … Read more
Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
For many years now proponents of “alternatives” to the publicly-funded and largely publicly-provided NHS have been cheerleaders for social insurance … Read more
Hewitt review misses need for far reaching change
Richard Bourne discusses how past policy failings still haunt the current health policy debate, as he explores the changes proposed … Read more
The Kings Fund: The rise and decline of the NHS in England 2000–20
A paper from the Kings Fund former Chief Executive Chris Ham analyses how a major public service was allowed to … Read more
To get NHS out of this hole – stop digging
In ten years from 2000 a decade of sustained investment by a New Labour government managed to repair much of the damage … Read more