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David Rowland

David Rowland is CHPI's Director. He joined the organisation in 2019 after over a decade of working in senior policy positions within the healthcare regulatory sector. For David's full bio see our People pageSee all posts by David Rowland
One of the scandals of the COVID 19 pandemic which the current public inquiry has yet to explore is the failure by the government to use the private hospital sector to help the NHS and to reduce the growing backlog of elective care for NHS patients. Nowhere was this failure more obvious than in January 2021 at the peak of the second wave, when London’s NHS hospital services were collapsing under the weight of thousands of new COVID... Read More
CHPI evidence to the COVID 19 Public Inquiry The Centre has been the only organisation which has carried out a detailed analysis of the contracts between the NHS and the private hospital sector during the pandemic.  We have conducted two previous studies of this issue based on Freedom of Information requests and analysis of financial data and hospital activity statistics.   You can read these reports here and here These... Read More
Wes Streeting was spot on when he said during the election campaign that the biggest risk to the NHS is that it ends up becoming a ‘poor service for poor people’, where the middle classes are forced to pay for their own care, leaving fewer resources to treat sicker, poorer and unhealthier people in NHS hospitals. It is a risk that has grown significantly over the past decade, where cuts to the NHS have meant that more people are... Read More