Tamasin Cave writes about corporate lobbying and blogs at BadInfluence.net. She has been a researcher with Spinwatch for a decade and is co-author with Andy Rowell of A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain (Vintage, 2015).
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Published in: ourNHSFormer health secretary Andrew Lansley’s diaries finally released in (nearly) fullInsurers and private US healthcare giants are revealed to be amongst those on the inside track of creating huge NHS changes.
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Published in: ourNHSRevolving doors at the NHS’s bully-in-chiefAs the NHS’s financial regulator hires a new chair, the destination of its outgoing chair is if anything more noteworthy.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFun ways to stop corporations taking over schoolsTests and tech are being used to push privatisation into schools.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe final frontier for privatisation: schoolsAs in the NHS, the government’s structural changes to schools are just the start of a massive privatisation process.
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Published in: ourNHSTim, Telstra, and the tech takeover of the NHSTim Kelsey’s legacy to the NHS isn’t just the botched care.data project. He’s also been pushing a vision of digital...
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Published in: ourNHSWhy are GPs being told to hand billions-worth of NHS decisions to private health firms and their lobbyists?Whilst all eyes have been on the election, the government has quietly shifted into stage two of NHS privatisation,...