Key points and questions for the second reading, 14 July 2021 Prof Allyson M Pollock and Peter Roderick13 July 2021 Read as pdf The Health and Care Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 6 July 2021…
Integrated care systems
Roderick P, Pollock AM. A new bill to reform the NHS in England: the wrong proposals at the wrong time. BMJ Opinion 11 Feb 2021.
The abolition of the NHS in England
This first appeared in the Huffington Post UK on 14 March 2016 Written with Peter Roderick, co-author of the NHS Bill On Friday, the cross party NHS Bill returned to the Commons for its second reading (watch the video). The…
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…
Why the public should opt in to care.data and out of data privatisation
The NHS England leaflet ‘Better information means better care’, sent to every household in England, has triggered a campaign to encourage people to opt out of the new care.data system by telling their GP that they do not want their…
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…