About this Lecture

Please join as at 6pm, Thursday 28^th of November in the King’s Building, room -1.56, Strand, at King’s College, London for our eighth lecture and discussion, focusing on the NHS, prevention and care.

We will cover:

• the pledge for national well-being to be as important a goal as GDP, and how much the UK has fallen in international rankings for health and well-being outcomes;
• the focus on ensuring the health service shifts to a prevention model, not being a ‘sickness’ service, by tackling unhealthy food, air pollution, nicotine and other leading causes of ill-health;
• the scale of privatisation within the NHS since the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the pledge to end outsourcing in the NHS, and the return to public funding;
• NHS governance, particularly in foundation trusts and Integrated Care Boards;
• tuition fees for health related higher education and the Hippocratic Oath.

We have two brilliant discussants, Prof Becky Malby from the University of York who has also worked on Integrated Care Boards, and also Dr Johnbosco Nwogbo from the campaign group WeOwnIt. You can download the full programme with sources and background here. This is part of a series on Current Issues in Labour’s Economic Policy, and up next are universities and nurseries (5/12), and big tech media (12/12).

About this Event Series

How should Labour achieve its economic objectives, for growth, prosperity and equality in Britain? This series is based on Labour’s economic policy and legislative plans. There will be a one hour lecture with Prof Ewan McGaughey, followed by seminar discussion, joined by expert discussants including from the Institute for Employment Rights: see the Eventbrite pages. Attendees will participate in formulating a policy note for each topic, and draft amendments to Bills to fulfil the goals in each policy field.

Sources include Keir Starmer’s pledges, the Labour Manifesto, official policies, and Bills. We compare these to human right treaties that bind the UK, including the Universal Declaration (ratified by the two International Covenants of 1966), the European Convention and Social Charter. We compare existing UK legal sources to these goals, to international models, and to empirical data. Full background for each topic is in Ewan McGaughey,Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (2022) chapters 3-5, 8-17 and 20 (McG), available on the Cambridge Uni Press website.