Tag Archives: Health and Social Care
Press & Media
Assisted dying: UK can easily learn from Canada’s mistakes, think tank says
Ahead of Kim Leadbeater’s bill text being introduced, new briefing shows lessons UK can learn on eligibility and safeguards from failures in Canadian assisted dying policy.
Published: | 11 November 2024 |
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The Social Market Foundation responds to the King’s Speech
The Social Market Foundation’s response to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first King’s Speech follows below.
Published: | 17 July 2024 |
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NHS should let British patients consult cheaper online doctors from Singapore
In a paper published today by the Social Market Foundation, with a foreword from former health minister Lord Norman Warner, healthcare researcher Max Thilo identifies lessons for the UK’s healthcare...
Published: | 03 March 2024 |
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The Social Market Foundation appoints Theo Bertram as new Director
Theo Bertram said: “I’m delighted to join the SMF as its new Director. Over 35 years, the SMF has established a reputation at the centre of British politics as independent,...
Published: | 27 February 2024 |
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Government urged to scrap £20bn New Hospital Programme and invest in specialist centres and GP-led care
The proposals come as part of a paper published today by the Social Market Foundation think tank by Nick Bosanquet, former Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College, and Andrew...
Published: | 24 January 2024 |
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Majority support ‘nanny state’ policies to improve Britain’s health outcomes
The Social Market Foundation has said that policymakers looking to improve the nation’s health should not be too worried about voter opposition, since the public is overwhelmingly in favour of...
Published: | 14 September 2023 |
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‘Hire business leaders to run Department of Health’
Lord Warner, a health minister under Tony Blair, has written a pamphlet for the Social Market Foundation warning that without dramatic change in management and structure, the NHS will inevitably...
Published: | 16 July 2023 |
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Labour must regulate unhealthy habits to achieve its health mission
Today Keir Starmer pledged to “improve healthy life expectancy for all” and to “halve the inequality gap between different regions of England”, but the SMF, a cross-party think tank, argued...
Published: | 22 May 2023 |
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Ask the expert: What are the key policy challenges facing the social care workforce
In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask the Expert seminar, Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at Kings College London, discussed the key...
Published: | 07 September 2018 |
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