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Not What The Bus Promised
Health Governance after Brexit
Not What The Bus Promised
Health Governance after Brexit
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Description
What does the UK's exit from the EU mean for health and the NHS?
This book explains the legal and practical implications of Brexit on the NHS: its staffing; especially on the island of Ireland; medicines, medical devices and equipment; and biomedical research. It considers the UK's post-Brexit trade agreements and what they mean for health, and discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-Brexit health law.
To put the legal analysis in context, the book draws on over 400 conversations the authors had with people in the north of England and Northern Ireland, interviews with over 40 health policy stakeholders, details of a film about their research made with ShoutOut UK, the authors' work with Parliaments and governments across the UK, and their collaborations with key actors like the NHS Confederation, the British Medical Association, and Cancer Research UK. The book shows that the language people use to talk about hoped-for legitimate post-Brexit health governance suggests a great deal of faith in law and legal process among 'ordinary people', but the opposite from 'insider elites'.
Not What The Bus Promised puts the authors' knowledge and experiences centre frame, rather than claiming to express 'objective reality'. It will be of interest to any reader who cares about the NHS and wants to understand its present and future.
Table of Contents
2. Aims and Approach I: Stories within a Story, Positionality and Reflexivity
3. Aims and Approach II: People, Time and Locations, Conducting our Research and Analysis
4. Scope: The Effects of EU Law on Health and the NHS
5. Cross-border Healthcare in Great Britain
6. Cross-border Healthcare in Northern Ireland
7. NHS Staffing
8. Medicines, Medical Devices and Equipment
9. Biomedical Research
10. The UK's Trade Relationships, the NHS, and Health
11. Accountability for Post-Brexit Health Governance
12. Conclusions
Product details
Published | 05 Oct 2023 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 352 |
ISBN | 9781509951505 |
Imprint | Hart Publishing |
Series | Hart Studies in Law and Health |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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The stories told by individuals give emotional and social context to the description of the legal landscape and provide the book with 'heart' ... [An] innovative and interesting book.
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
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An impressive amount of data collected over many years is woven into the analysis in a narrative way, including interviews with politicians and policymakers and various set-ups prompting street conversations like Vox pops. These breadth and depth of data (and the transparency surrounding the methods) give the book an exceptional level of palpability, which makes it surprisingly accessible given the complexity of the topic.
Political Studies Association
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A creative and courageous book
Katy Hayward, Queen's University Belfast
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Meticulous and informative, but also gripping and even moving in parts.
Charlotte Godziewski, City, University of London
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[The book's] legacy is its investigation of the intersection between the “noise” of Brexit-time and the “silence” and timelessness of law.
Francesca Strumia, City, University of London
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The authors of this fine book make a persuasive case that Brexit is bad for health… Not What the Bus Promised brilliantly starts the first step of much-needed post-Brexit health governance reform in the UK.
Medical Law International

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