Richard Blogger

<p>Richard Blogger writes about the NHS and social policy at <a href="http://nhsvault.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">NHS Vault</a>.</p>

"The biggest denationalisation of health services ever announced by a health minister"

More hospitals - potentially all of them - will be run outside the NHS as so-called "mutuals", the government announced this week. Nine have already set out down this path but who really benefits from "mutualisation"?

By Richard Blogger

/ 17 Dec 2014

Personal Health Budgets lead to individualism and isolation

A Thatcherite 'voucher' system is being imposed on England's NHS is the worst way to deliver 'personalisation'.

By Richard Blogger

/ 18 Jun 2014

Clegg promised no back-door privatisation of NHS: new white paper opens the front door

With the government's White Paper, we are facing the full-scale privatisation of the NHS in England and Wales.

By Richard Blogger

/ 20 Jul 2011