In an article for The Fraser Institute, we argue the lessons for Canada from the NHS reform programme are less that competition in health care has failed, but rather that market-based health care reforms in the UK have been crippled by the government’s unwillingness to stop directing the service from the centre. The reform programme as a whole has been 'a botched job driven by political...

from the Morning Star by Will Stone Union leaders and MPs lashed out today at “disastrous” plans to reform the health service that will tear apart the fabric of the NHS. Six health unions jointly signed a letter condemning the speed and scale of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms which they said risk putting cost before

by Shemadene Edwards, Health Researcher, Reform Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, has spoken of the need to reform the NHS through putting patients at the heart of the service, empowering health professionals and using information to drive choice. With...

To misquote Glenn Reynolds: "They said if I voted Conservative it would signal the end of the NHS, and they were right!". Lord Darzi, one of the Health Ministers, is initiating a little publicised project called Personal Health Budgets (PHB), a new way of funding NHS care for chronically ill patients. So says Nurses for Reform. This looks as though it is the start of the introduction of Singapore-...

An excellent Editorial piece here from the Lancet of 15th November. No further comment is necessary. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is one to be proud of: free care for all at the point of delivery. But a proposal last week by the Department of Health to allow NHS patients in England...

by Dr Patrick Nolan, Chief Economist, Reform As has become very apparent in recent days, the medium-term funding outlook for the NHS, with baselines likely to be frozen in real terms for several years from 2011, means the UK health...

Stephen Dorrell, chair of the Health Select Committee and former Health Secretary, defends the government health reform plans but admits he may have done things differently.

Britain has fallen behind other European countries which spend similar amounts on health with "little incentive in the NHS to improve the health of the nation", PM says.

Government prepares to publish the health reform bill, paving the way for GPs to get control of most of the NHS budget.

A senior adviser to the Welsh NHS warns that without reform poorer people could be left in a "dark hole" with their health deteriorating.