> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Resources - Campaign guides and briefings on the NHS - URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/resources-campaign-guides-and-briefings-on-nhs/ - Published: 2013-12-10T12:12:43.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-23T00:13:15.000Z - Description: This section of OurNHS's new 'Resource guide' has campaign guides and introductory briefings on the Health & Social Care Act and a bit of history. - Author: OurNHS - Tags: Resources , #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:46, #appended-excerpt **What’s happening to the NHS especially because of the Health & Social Care Act?** [Sign up](http://eepurl.com/uZeSf?ref=opendemocracy.net) for OurNHS’s weekly digest of original campaigning journalism aimed at helping people understand what is happening to the NHS - and what we need to do to restore it. [‘NHS Plc’](http://www.cartoonkate.co.uk/nhs-plc/?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- a cartoon introduction, great to share. [‘Introduction for NHS Campaigners’](http://www.keepournhspublic.com/policybriefings.php?ref=opendemocracy.net#KONPIntroductionforCampaigners) \- Frequently Asked Questions on the past, present and future for the NHS, prepared in 2013 for Keep Our NHS Public by Caroline Molloy. [‘Changes to the NHS’](http://www.4nhs.org.uk/nhs/faqs-on-changes-to-the-nhs/?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- More Frequently Asked Questions this time from Patients 4 the NHS. [‘Mythbuster: Health Warning’](http://www.redpepper.org.uk/mythbuster-health-warning/?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- Dr Jacky Davis busts the myths on health ‘reform’. [‘Unpicking the spin’](https://www.opendemocracy.net/files/UnpickingthespinBriefing.pdf) \- another slightly older mythbuster by John Lister. [‘Cameron’s betrayal of the NHS’](https://www.opendemocracy.net/files/a1541e07-2739-09e4-a197-df8399b9d4aa.pdf)\- a Labour party document comparing Cameron’s pre-election promises to what has happened since. [‘How to privatise services the Cameron/Clegg way’](https://twitter.com/AndrewzCooper/status/380670597836980224/photo/1/large?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- a useful flowchart. Which regions are privatising fastest? [Interactive map](http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/data-and-charts/variation-nhs-spending-independent-sector-providers?ref=opendemocracy.net) from the Nuffield Trust [ ‘Cataclysm for the NHS?](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/alex-nunns/year-of-cataclysm-for-nhs)’ Alex Nunns reviews what happened to the NHS in 2012. [‘The Changing NHS - Structure’](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19674838?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- simple diagram from the BBC showing the increased bureaucracy and increased role of private consultancies and lobbyists. [‘The End of the NHS as we know it’](http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-end-of-the-nhs-as-we-know-it/?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- immediately after the Health & Social Care Act became law in April 2012, Professor Colin Leys looks at how insurance and charging could follow. [‘How MPs voted on the Health & Social Care Bill’](http://www.goingtowork.org.uk/how-mps-voted-on-the-health-and-social-care-bill?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- a compilation by the TUC of the final key vote that passed the Health & Social Care Bill into law in April 2012. [‘Liberating the NHS - source and destination of the Lansley reform’](http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~alexss/nhs.pdf?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- Dr Lucy Reynolds, Dr John Lister, Dr Alex Scott-Samuel and Professor Martin McKee dissect the White Paper and the Health & Social Care Bill in August 2011. [‘Privatising Healthcare’ ](https://www.opendemocracy.net/files/PressBriefing20110123.pdf)\- John Lister’s accessible analysis of the Health & Social Care Bill from January 2011. [‘Death of the NHS as we know it’](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/maxpemberton/8273858/Finger-on-the-Pulse-Max-Pemberton.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- Max Pemberton explains the Act in a Telegraph column in January 2011. **Some history - how did we get to this point?** NHS Privatisation - a [video interview](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i-yFfLgzSc&ref=opendemocracy.net) with Dr Lucy Reynolds from April 2013 highlighting the corporate interests driving the Act. Full version available [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTnCtg%5FOmk&ref=opendemocracy.net). [‘Marketisation phases and forms in the NHS’](https://www.opendemocracy.net/files/Krachler%5FNick%5FFinal%5FDraft%5FMarketisation%5Fin%5FNHS%5F20130905.pdf) \- a detailed academic paper. [‘The Day they signed the death warrant for the NHS’](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/maxpemberton/8655242/The-day-they-signed-the-death-warrant-for-the-NHS.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- Max Pemberton highlights the destruction wreaked by the expansion of the ‘Any Qualified Provider’ policy in July 2011. [‘The Plot Against the NHS’](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/colin-leys/plot-against-nhs) \- in May 2011 Professor Colin Leys summarises for openDemocracy his book explaining how the Blair government paved the way for the coalition’s health ‘reforms’. [‘Review - The Plot Against the NHS’](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/may/22/plot-against-nhs-leys-review?ref=opendemocracy.net)\- reviewing Leys’ book, Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, asks ‘how so many of us were unable to see through the mists’. Keep OurNHS Public has a comprehensive repository of briefings on many aspects of NHS privatisation going back to 2006 [here](http://www.keepournhspublic.com/policybriefings.php?ref=opendemocracy.net). [Geoffrey Rivet’s history](http://www.nhshistory.net/a%5Fguide%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fnhs.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) of the NHS since its inception. ***Find this useful? Please donate to OurNHS*** [**here** ](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/donate)***to help keep us going. Thank you.*** This section of OurNHS's new ['Resource guide'](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ournhs/brand-new-ournhs-guide-to-nhs-campaign-resources) has campaign guides and introductory briefings on the Health & Social Care Act and a bit of history.