In the wake of the Mid-Staffs report on hospital failure, David Owen has written to the Royal Colleges urging them to re-examine their role in securing high professional standards. Have relations with the Department of Health become too close?
Owen's Bill may become an important tool for campaigners and the public in pushing prospective MPs to publicly endorse a democratic health system. It is published in full, below, with explanatory notes.
A new bill to reinstate the legal and democratic basis of the NHS in England has been laid before parliament in the House of Lords by David Owen. Here, to launch our new NHS section, Owen writes for openDemocracy on why it is both essential and urgently needed, to re-establish the principled publi
The government is refusing to publish its own internal risk assessments of the impact of its reforms. Could this be because they will illustrate that marketisation is the name of
David Cameron should respect the evidence and stop the unamendable Health and Social Care Bill, says former health minister Lord David Owen
