Policies & Reports
This collection is arranged chronologically.As we have been discussing policies about the development of health services for the last eighty years we have formulated views on many topics. Our latest strategy document is here. The documents listed below may not represent our current thinking. I have tried not to include documents with no current interest, such as those deploring some long past event or failure to tackle a problem. You will also find reports from most of our conferences on their own page. More historical material is here.
Although many of our members are very interested in the rest of the world we have agreed for some years that we will confine our discussions to the United Kingdom, because we do not have the resources to address anything more.
Current discussions about policy we are developing is on our wiki pages or Dropbox. You have to get our permission to access this material.
- A Socialist Plan for Health Irwin Brown 2011
- Submission to the Health Committee enquiry into Public Health
- Response to Public Health White Paper: Healthy Lives and Healthy People
- Response to the National Wellbeing Debate
- Response to the Coalition White Paper on Health
- Statement on Foundation Hospitals 2010
- Marketisation of the NHS
- National Voices statement on hospitals, community care and patient involvment
- Health Inequalities Policy Statement
- Creating a locally democratically accountable and planned, not market driven, NHS
- Whistle Blowing Submission to the Labour Party Policy Commission September 2009
- Submission to the Prime Minister's Commission on Nursing and Midwifery August 2009
- Evidence to the Health Committee enquiry into alcohol March 2009
- A national debate on an accountable NHS discussion paper October 2008
- NHS Constitution - response to consultation October 2008
- Topping up the NHS June 2008 Submission to the review of policy relating to patients who choose to pay privately for drugs not funded on the NHS
- Free Market Stalinism February 2008
- Submission to Sustainable Communities Policy Commission February 2008
- Unequal from the start February 2008
- Social Health Association Response to the NHS Next Stage Review January 2008
- Tackling inequalities through the NHS January 2008
- Primary Care Dental Service November 2007
- Extending Labour Party Democracy September 2007
- A Fresh Start - developing an alternative vision for the NHS in England Position paper January 2007
- Public and Patient Involvement submission to Health Committee January 2007
- Regulating Health Care Professionals November 2006
- A fresh start for the NHS September 2006
- The Business Model June 2006
- Co-payments and charges in the NHS - submission to Health Select Committee 2005
- Transforming School Food SHA Evidence 2005
- The way forward for the SHA 2005
- Contemporary Resolution: Public Health and Inequality 2005
- Response to Smoking consultation 2005
- Response to Independence, Well-being and Choice - the way forward for Social Services July 2005
- SHA - The Way Forward May 2005
- Memorandum to the Select Committee on Choosing Health Jan 2005
- SHA response to the Choosing Health? consultation May 2004
- Key Issues for Socialists March 2004
- Big Conversation on Health - SHA submission March 2004
- SHA Policy on Foundation Hospitals
- Response to Labour Party Health Policy consultation October 2002
- Response to other Labour Party consultations October 2002
- Child Poverty 2002
- Statement on Foundation Hospitals 2002
- Policy for the second term of the Labour Government 2001
- Statement on Privatisation 2001
- Role of the Private Sector 2001
- Public Health 2001
- European health research 2001
- Privatisation and the NHS 2001
- Democracy and Accountability in the new NHS 2001
- The National Plan 2000
- Private Healthcare 2000
- Labour Party Economic Policy 2000
- Democracy and Accountability in the new NHS(SHA conference 2000)
- How the World Trade Organisation is shaping domestic policies in health care (pdf file from UCL Health Policy and Health Services Research Unit, Sep 2000)
- Myth, Prejudice & Reality - a Mental Health discussion paper (SHA Sep 1999)
- Submission to the Royal Commission on the funding of Long Term Care(Greater Manchester SHA,1999)
- Squaring the Circle - Democracy & the NHS (SHA,1998)
- Consultants' contracts 1997
- Submission to the House of Commons Health Committee on Health and Social Services 1997
- The Pharmaceutical Industry 1996
- Squaring the Circle Democracy in the NHS 1996
- Feasible Socialism- The National Health Service past, present and future by Dr Julian Tudor Hart(SHA 1994)
- Income and Health, Quick and Wilkinson 1991
- Democracy and Accountability & the NHS Conference(SHA,1990)
- Policy Digest 1988
- Health Centres 1975
- Policy Summary 1942