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Senior Lecturer @LJMULaw EU/public/comparative/health law, Co-coord @EUHealthGov, Secretary @BritAssoCompLaw. She/her. Views personal.
Jan 7, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
Health in Europe starts 2021 by going global! Join us for a panel discussion on the new EU health policy special issue of @JHPPL and "European" health care! 12pm (UK) Weds 13 Jan 2021 - m.guy2@lancaster.ac.uk for info/access. (1/8) Professor Katherine Fierlbeck @kfierlbeck (2/8)
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/…
Oct 14, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
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) Paper also linked here (2/3)cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Jan 10, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read
I implore people to stop using private healthcare: it’s killing the NHS | Jessica Arnold theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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]
Nov 9, 2019 13 tweets 5 min read
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]
Sep 26, 2019 7 tweets 9 min read
A new perspective on the old question of “does competition law apply to the NHS?” from @NHSEngland @NHSImprovement #NHSLongTermPlan proposal to remove @CMAgovUK and @NHSImprovement concurrent powers (=parallel jurisdiction) [a thread] (1/7) @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)