‘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 Radical Community Medicine, this essay reflects many …
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The NHS’ Long Term Plan was published by NHS England on 7 January 2019. It sets out the next 10 years of NHS healthcare in England. But it was the …
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The Health and Social Care Act 2012 removed the responsibility for providing the NHS from the Secretary of State for Health. Commissioning of services was handed over to a new …
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On Saturday 17 November Public Matters took part in a workshop on the NHS for the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) bootcamp. Also on the panel was James Skinner from Medact who talked …
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This is a talk given by Public Matter’s Deborah Harrington at an NHS event held jointly by NEON (New Economics Organisers Network) and Health Campaigns Together for The World Transformed …
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The Telegraph recently published an article: ‘NHS to be franchised around the globe under post-Brexit plans’. Here we re-publish an updated version of the article we wrote on this subject …
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Privatisation has been the economic policy of successive governments since the 1970s. All the major infrastructure, utilities and manufacturing industries which had been brought into public ownership in the immediate …
Read MoreIn exactly one month’s time there will be a 10 Minute Rule Bill presented in Parliament by Eleanor Smith MP to Reinstate the NHS as a publicly provided, accountable and …
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On 18 May 2018, in its property section, the Guardian ran an article entitled ‘NHS privately planning to develop Royal Free nurses’ home into luxury flats.’ A week earlier …
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This afternoon in parliament in Westminster Hall there will be a debate on privatisation in the NHS. This debate has been granted in response to a petition to government. …
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