Last year, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting took office on a platform of reducing NHS waiting … Continue reading “NHS waiting lists: why it’s even worse than it looks”

Our Strategic Partnerships Manager Matthew Bowles has written for ConservativeHome on the doctors’ strikes. The article said: “If the UK … Continue reading “There is a smarter way to deal with doctors’ strikes”

Our Editorial and Research Fellow Len Shackleton has written for The Telegraph on the Resident Doctor strikes The article said: … Continue reading “We must clip the BMA’s wings”

This blog post was first published on IEA Insider. Subscribe at insider.iea.org.uk The Taxpayers Alliance have recently published a report on productivity in … Continue reading “Review: “Approaches to increasing productivity in healthcare” by Shimeon Lee (2025)”

Commenting on the Government’s plan for the NHS announced today, Dr Kristian Niemietz, Editorial Director at the free market think … Continue reading “NHS plan ‘mostly reaffirmation’”

Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz was quoted in the Times on NHS failures. The article said: “The NHS is one of … Continue reading “NHS struggles to turn cash into care”

A few years ago, the psychiatrist and science blogger Scott Alexander recounted an interesting anecdote from his university days on … Continue reading “Disability and incapacity benefits for working-age people: some recent developments”

This article was first published on the Institute of Economic Affairs Substack There is no “British DOGE”, but the idea … Continue reading “NHS England is Dead”

Responding to the Prime Minister’s speech on public sector reform Tom Clougherty, Executive Director of the free market think tank … Continue reading “Abolishing NHS England won’t work without greater decentralisation, IEA responds to PM speech”