Stewart Player is a public policy analyst and co-author (with Professor Colin Leys) of The Plot Against the NHS (Merlin, 2011).
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Published in: ourNHSHas Labour really turned its back on pro-market NHS ‘solutions’?As the NHS turns 70, just which corporate actors are queuing up to drive ‘consensus’-based reform? And is Labour prepared to sufficiently distance themselves from such ideas?
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Published in: ourNHSTaking politics out of the NHS? Or constructing an elitist ‘consensus’?As certain wings of the Labour party join calls for ‘consensus’ on the NHS, a reductive global healthcare consensus has already been established in the meeting rooms of Davos, McKinsey and the World Bank – with pivotal support from Blair-era peers and NHS appointees.
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Published in: ourNHS'Accountable Care' - the American import that's the last thing England's NHS needsDespite Obama's reforms, US healthcare is failing. So why are new US-style healthcare systems being quietly piloted across England – and who's driving it?