Jessica Ormerod

Jessica Ormerod is a former policy advisor to the National Health Action Party and the co-founder (with Deborah Harrington) of Public Matters, a think tank which champions the ethos and values of public services.

The latest multi-billion pound move in NHS privatisation – is the endgame in sight?

Private healthcare firms have just been offered a substantial say in deciding how billions of pounds of NHS mental health money is spent.

By Jessica Ormerod and Deborah Harrington

/ 10 May 2019

The latest multi-billion pound move in NHS privatisation – is the endgame in sight?

The great NHS property sell-off gathers pace

A reliance on firesales of NHS buildings – both unused and currently in use – returns us to the bad old days of a few rich London hospitals and impoverished hospitals everywhere else.

By Jessica Ormerod

/ 30 May 2018

Call the Midwife - while we still have one

Four out of five hospitals are short of midwives, a new investigation has found. Funding cuts mean the situation is "getting worse, not better", according to midwife leaders.

By Jessica Ormerod

/ 25 Apr 2014

A royal delivery

All women deserve the very best level of safety and choice when it comes to childbirth - but attacks on NHS maternity services are threatening these rights.

By Jessica Ormerod

/ 25 Jul 2013