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: 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,...
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Published in: ourNHSThe privatising cabal at the heart of our NHS
This isn't a National Health Service - or even a healthcare market. It's a cabal - and it looks something like this.
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Published in: ourNHSThe 'ninja' NHS privatisers you've never heard of...Meet the shadowy team at the heart of many of the most controversial NHS privatisations to date, including the...
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Published in: ourNHSDoes Jeremy Hunt know something we don’t?Is Hunt trying to distance himself from the amount the NHS is spending on lawyers, consultants and private...