This first appeared on the Huffington Post 05 July 2017 Dear Mr Hunt The 69th anniversary today of the National Health Service is a timely but sad occasion on which to draw your attention to the end of the service…
Risk of privatisation of the Scottish NHS in the event of a no vote
The Coalition Government abolished the public NHS in England when it passed the Health and Social Care Act in 2012. This Act didn’t directly affect the NHS in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but could have grave long-term consequences for…
Don’t blame a ‘rotten NHS culture’ for the CQC cover-up
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…