A Two-Tier System Is an Existential Threat to the NHS
An NHS crisis caused by cuts and privatisation can’t be solved by allowing yet more profiteering. The only solution is to return public healthcare to its socialist roots.
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David Rowland is director of the Centre for Health and the Public Interest. He has worked for over a decade in senior positions in health regulation and has written extensively on health and social care reform. In 2013 he was co-author of a report which looked at nhs preparations for a pandemic.
An NHS crisis caused by cuts and privatisation can’t be solved by allowing yet more profiteering. The only solution is to return public healthcare to its socialist roots.
The coronavirus crisis has demonstrated a need to rethink healthcare, breaking from outdated technocratic models and seeing the full social and political context behind public health.