David Rowland

David Rowland is the Director of the Centre for Health and the Public Interest. Previously he was a research fellow at University College London researching PFI alongside Allyson Pollock, and has also worked on Nuffield Trust funded projects examining EU health policy and the management of the NHS.

Undermining public law is no way to protect public health

Safeguards on everything from procurement to notifiable diseases, health inspections to freedom of information, are being suspended at a time when accountability is more important than ever.

By David Rowland

/ 6 Aug 2020

Undermining public law is no way to protect public health

It’s not just medical staff and medicines that Brexit threatens, but the core principle at the heart of our NHS

The toxic Brexit debate has often wrongly characterised the NHS as a “British NHS for British people”, rather than championing it as a service based on healthcare as a matter of human dignity.

By David Rowland and Tamara Hervey

/ 7 Feb 2019