NHS whistleblower

There’s an article today about casualty departments, by Allyson Pollock. That’s a name I remember, from way back in the day, when New Labour were first getting enthusiastic about helping US health firms to take over the NHS, and she was one of the experts who was clearest about what the threat involved. There was a dirty tricks campaign involving a New Labour MP, smearing Pollock as an unreliable witness whose testimony should be disregarded. I can remember being so incensed, yet fascinated, by this process that I wrote a play about it. Never got anywhere, long forgotten, but now, maybe, is the time to dust it down and look again…