Nurses for Reform Blog

I am delighted to be appointed as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Progressive Vision.   They have some very interesting things to say about healthcare and the NHS and I look forward to a long term collaboration with them.

Last week NFR had a very successful evening speaking at the Oxford Libertarian Society.  Sharing the stage with Shane Frith of Progressive Vision, we discussed the “Alternatives to Government Run Healthcare”.  The evening was videoed and when the link is available I will put it up on this blog.  In the mean time here are a couple of photographs of the evening.

I am off to Oxford University tonight to speak to the Oxford Libertarian Society.  I will be giving a joint talk with Shane Frith, Director of Progressive Vision.  This is how we have been billed:

Alternatives to Government-Run Healthcare’

The ubiquitous assumption in British political discourse is that state control of healthcare is a necessary policy to ensure universal access to high quality care, free from profit-motivated decision making. Our speakers challenge this assumption, arguing that evidence from voluntary schemes around the world present a compelling case for rejecting the deference to state-run systems of healthcare. Arguing from her experience as a senior nurse in the NHS, Helen Evans will tackle the reform of healthcare provision, criticising the rationing and bureacracy of NICE, and the special interests served by the state’s position as a monopolist in healthcare. 

Today Nurses for Reform have partnered with the British think tank Progressive Vision and launched the on-line campaign #No2NHS.  

Standing in opposition to Obamacare, this campaign not only seeks to inform the American public on the willfully negligent realities of socialised medicine, but it aims to provide British people with an opportunity to attack the National Health Service and all forms of state run healthcare.

Details of this campaign can be found on both Facebook and Twitter.