12pm(UK) Wed 21 October -What might aspects of #EuropeanSemester and #EU#competition policy tell us about Member State-EU interaction in a #EuropeanHealthUnion? Join us at Health in Europe to find out, or request paper/ presentation recording - m.guy2@lancaster.ac.uk (1/3)
Some interesting points raised by this, reflecting some of the messy reality of English healthcare & perennial distinctions between the NHS/private healthcare.[1/9]
One way of looking at English healthcare is to think of 4 categories…(see further tinyurl.com/ydpvq77x) [2/9]
Such a mixed piece – I'll leave some factual errors to thinktanks for chapter & verse. “What we talk about when we talk about privatisation & the NHS” – a thread [1/10]
John Furse in the #LRB: lrb.co.uk/v41/n21/john-f… via @LRB
@LRB Some chronologies suggest coherence, lending credence to conspiracy theories - “secret plans” to “privatise” NHS. But incremental changes have been haphazard: what we have lived through, & continue to live through, is series of convoluted & complicated compromises re NHS [2/10]
@LRB 3 diverse strands identifiable – knitted together to varying degrees, and varying degrees of success. [3/10]
@NHSEngland@NHSImprovement@CMAgovUK “…NHS Improvement would no longer have general competition law powers to enforce the Competition Act 1998, or to conduct market studies or make market investigation references under the Enterprise Act 2002”(para 54, bit.ly/2lTLYFk). First CA98, then EA02 (2/7)