Edits the UK section of progressive media platform openDemocracy, and also the site's NHS section. Have advised leading campaign groups and parliamentarians on health policy (including Keep Our NHS Public, 38 Degrees, and the TUC, for whose members I have also written handbooks). Particular focus on the use of digitalisation in public services and how it drives inequality, and on trade deals including TTIP and CETA. Background as a campaigner against NHS privatisation, notably leading a successful High Court challenge under EU Procurement Law which overturned a proposed privatisation of 9 local hospitals. Previously a trade union researcher (working for Unite and TUC HQs and also freelance for ETUC) on equalities and environment, and before that a housing officer. Degree in Social & Political Sciences from Cambridge University. Check out the first you tube video (to the right) from about 12 minutes in, to hear me speak recently on the subject of what's happening to the English National Health Service.
I chaired a symposium on health funding at the 2017 LSE's International Health Policy Conference. I have appeared as a panel expert (on health cuts) on national BBC TV ("the Big Question") and on local BBC and ITV news, as well as numerous appearances on local BBC radio. I have participated in Guardian roundtable podcast on NHS policy and in a Daily Express podcast debates with the head of the pro-market Reform think tank. have spoken in parliament alongside the then shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, as a platform speaker at the UK Green Party conference on health service privatisation, and at several official fringe meetings at Labour Party conference, as well as a number of union conferences including international (ETUC and ITUC) - recently mostly related to NHS privatisation, though in the past on diverse topics including environment and equalities.