David Rowland questions the common perception that the latest Government’s proposals for NHS reform represent a turn away from private sector involvement in the NHS and the market-based orthodoxy in health policy.
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If there is any hope of providing a comprehensive hospital service right now, every hospital bed and every consultant should be placed under the direct control of the NHS and care should only be available on the basis of need not ability to pay.
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In the midst of a lethal pandemic, the government controversially axed the main public health body (Public Health England) and announced the creation of yet another bureaucracy, designed by management consultants with no expertise in public health. History shows that without a clear overarching strategy and laws, these ad hoc reforms are likely to further hamper the UK’s ability to protect the population.
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As the political crisis tips over into a full blown constitutional crisis, the NHS in England remains highly susceptible to the ditching of constitutional conventions.
Read MoreThis document contains the response to a Freedom of Information request we submitted to NHS England in June of 2019 asking for details of the legal status of Sustainability and Transformation Plans and the appointments process for the Leads and Chairs of STPs.
Read MoreThe toxic debate about Brexit has inevitably spilled over into discussion about the future of the NHS. But have we fully quantified the risks to the NHS’s founding principles?
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CHPI’s new Director offers a cutting critique of Simon Stevens’ new NHS Long Term Plan
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David sets out worries about how coronavirus is being used to suspend or ignore safeguards designed to protect the public interest. Originally posted in OpenDemocracy
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David considers the recommendations of the Cumberlege review in BMJ Opinion
Read MoreCHPI Director David Rowland writes for LSE Policy & Politics about the urgency of a more co-ordinated response in the highly fragmented social care sector.
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Policy makers have known about the likelihood and impact of a virus like COVID-19 for many years. And yet the risks to population health have barely received a mention in long-term planning for the NHS over the last decade.
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This report finds that reforms made to the NHS following the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 have impacted upon its ability to deal effectively with a possible flu pandemic.
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