Policy Forum is a collaboration between Pfizer and the New Statesman
The Tories may endanger your health
By the time Labour left office all patients were treated within 18 weeks. Plans for the health service will dismantle this. Rarely have proposed “reforms” alarmed so many professionals from every political corner.
Leader: Yet more top-down prescriptions for the NHS
There is no evidence that GPs want this responsibility or have the skills to fulfil the task.
Being Christopher Hitchens
The author and controversialist Christopher Hitchens has cancelled all appointments and begun chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. Shortly before this news, he talked to George Eaton about his life and his work.
The Tory stealth attack on the NHS
If the Tories have their way, they will break apart the health system, just like our schools. This is a strange kind of “big society”.
Shock and awe on the FM dial
Dead children, bad health and paedophiles: government adverts on local radio are painting a stunningly negative vision of Britain.
America versus the hacker
Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger’s, has one last chance to avoid extradition to the US to face charges of hacking into Nasa and Pentagon computers. Will the new government keep its word and help him avoid a savage punishment?
About Policy Forum
The healthcare sector is undergoing significant change both in the UK and across the world, and the impacts resulting from these changes are far-reaching. Opening up dialogue and generating discussion amongst a wide-range of stakeholders is crucial to managing this process and building sustainable and successful reform for the future.
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