Nicholas Timmins
Senior Fellow
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Labour’s 10 Year Health Plan: familiar ideas could be frustrated by familiar problems
There is plenty of the what but less of the how in Wes Streeting’s new plan.
Keir Starmer's decision to abolish NHS England is a high-risk strategy
Wes Streeting seems to have dramatically shifted his position on NHS England.
Enabling Integrated Care Systems to work better
Most of the money that flows to the NHS now goes through ICSs.
The disorderly return of PFI assets risks disruption to public services
A toxic end to PFI contracts would not encourage future – and needed – private investment in public assets.
Funding health care in England
The NHS’s recent travails have led once again to claims that the model is “broken” and that the answer is to change how health care is funded.
The NHS workforce plan is welcome – but just one part of improving the health service
The NHS workforce plan is backed by Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak – and is a huge commitment to substantial health spending increases.
DWP’s good intentions on disability support will be hard to implement
The new ‘Transforming Support’ white paper has its merits – but turning its contents into a humane and effective system will be no easy task.
Steve Barclay should be wary of trying to directly manage the NHS
Ministers are once again going to try to manage the NHS, but Nicholas Timmins warns that this may not be a good development
The Universal Credit end game is here – but it won't be easy
The end of the transition to Universal Credit is in sight, but its completion remains one of its biggest challenges
The Department for Work and Pensions is not learning Covid lessons
Nick Timmins is far from impressed with the DWP’s response to an IfG/Social Security Advisory Committee paper