IEA Featured Healthcare

Piers Morgan, Keir Starmer and several members of members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) have called for a second lockdown, but this isn't surprising considering "none of them is likely to lose their jobs, let alone their homes, in the next 12 months", writes the IEA's Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon. In ... Continue reading

The IEA's Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon joined critics of the government's new proposals to shut thousands of pubs in the North. Quoted in the Mail on Sunday, Chris argued that "a dodgy dossier passed around by Chris Whitty in private is simply not good enough". Read the full article here.    ... Continue reading

The NHS Confederation this week raised concerns about the health service’s ability to cope with a second wave and a vast backlog of treatments over the course of the winter. This, argues IEA Director of Communications Annabel Denham for City AM, has strengthened "an already-watertight case for system-level reform of the UK's healthcare system." When ... Continue reading

"Pregnant women are not property, and society’s default shouldn’t be that individuals cannot make the “right” lifestyle choices even if presented with the risks" says Annabel Denham, Director of Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Writing for CapX, Annabel says new guidelines from NICE which suggest recording maternal alcohol consumption, even without a woman's ... Continue reading

"In an ideal world, member states would do to the WHO what Matt Hancock has done to PHE and replace it with a streamlined agency that focuses only on infectious disease", writes the IEA's Head of Lifestyle Economics, Christopher Snowdon. But as Chris argues for CapX,  while "serious reform [of the WHO] is probably impossible ... Continue reading

"The ‘public health’ movement has spread itself too thinly over too many issues", writes the IEA's Head of Lifestyle Economics, Christopher Snowdon. In a column for Spiked magazine, Chris argues that "the modern ‘public health’ establishment is, at best, a waste of space. At worst, it is a menace. From local councils to the World ... Continue reading