Martin McKee

Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and member of Healthier in the EU.

NHS charging for overseas visitors – wrong on every level

Regulations that deny visitors NHS care – except for certain infectious diseases and to relieve death pains - are riven with contradictions. And will hit some unexpected victims as well as the intended scapegoats.

By Martin McKee

/ 5 Sep 2018

You get what you pay for – landmark study exposes NHS privatisation risks

England’s NHS has relied on outsourcing cleaning but new firm evidence about increased infection risks should make it reassess.

By Martin McKee, Aaron Reeves, Veronica Toffolutti and David Stuckler

/ 23 Jan 2017

The NHS is safest inside the EU

Brexiteers are no friends of the NHS - and they are relying on concerns about TTIP's effect on the NHS that have largely been addressed.

By Martin McKee

/ 6 Apr 2016

The end of the NHS as we know it

"How the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 would end entitlement to comprehensive health care in England" republished from The Lancet with thanks.

By Martin McKee, Allyson Pollock, David Price, Lucy Reynolds, Tim Treuherz, David McCoy and Peter Roderick

/ 27 Jan 2012

Health in Turkmenistan

The West pays little attention to Turkmenistan, one of the most repressive and reclusive countries of the former Soviet Union. When it does, it is often for dubious reasons -

By Bernd Rechel, Inga Sikorskaya and Martin McKee

/ 29 Jul 2009