This speech was delivered as a TED Talk for University of Liverpool. Finsbury Square, London. 29th March 2017. This has not been an easy time for me. My 13 year old has been making his GCSE subject choices at school and has chosen PE over history. It has brought back vivid memories of my choices at the […]
Regulations that “hold any business here back” should be scrapped, said Michael Gove, a key figure in the Brexit campaign. Gove’s belief is that pharmaceuticals are important to Britain’s success: less regulation will permit faster access to the NHS for novel treatments, and more sales will benefit the UK economy. Gove, amongst other Brexiteers, also believes […]
Maria Muelmenstaedt, an EU national, explains why she is dedicated to the NHS despite the uncertainty that Brexit has cast on her future. […]
As Article 50 is triggered, Bernard Merkel discusses the potential impact that Brexit could have on health […]
Ingeborg Welters discusses why many EU doctors are considering leaving the NHS as a result of Brexit […]
Any lingering hope that the government had some master plan for exiting the EU was dispelled this week, says Martin McKee. […]
The long awaited Brexit White Paper has finally appeared. Yet Martin McKee finds it fails to shed any light on how Brexit’s consequences for health (or much else) will be addressed. […]
On Tuesday 24 January, Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health gave evidence to the Health Committee of the House of Commons about how he plans to handle Brexit for health and social care. This was the first hearing in the Health Committee’s inquiry into Brexit and health and social care. You might think that […]
It’s been a monumental year. The UK’s decision to leave the European Union and the Chilcot report on the Iraq war prompt us to wonder why these self-inflicted problems ever happened. The legacies of David Cameron and Tony Blair will be dominated by Brexit and Iraq respectively. Different in many ways, but each was a […]
The ruling by three of the most senior judges in England and Wales that Theresa May must seek the approval of Parliament before triggering Article 50, signifying the United Kingdom’s (UK) intention to leave the European Union (EU), should not have come as any great surprise. Throughout the case, the Lord Chief Justice repeatedly expressed […]