Published in The Guardian, Tuesday 25 June 2013 Market-led health reforms are leading to poor quality healthcare – and are giving managers incentives to hide failure We now know that England’s healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission, tried to cover…
Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS
This blog first appeared on Left Foot Forward on 25 March 2013 At 2.36 on the afternoon of Tuesday 27 March, 2012 the Health and Social Care Bill 2011, repealing the legal foundations of the NHS in England, was given…
The latest casualty of health reform: casualty itself
Published in The Guardian 04 April 2013 A&E departments are the pressure valve of the health system, yet the government is moving rapidly to turn it off Accident and emergency departments are serially failing to meet targets, according to official…