Labour’s Health Service 1948

Labour Policy Forum discussions.

Below there are links to various documents produced by the Labour Party and our contributions to discussions within the Party in reverse chronological order. Unless otherwise stated we have reproduced the official text without comment, although usually omitting the pictures (which, sadly, are usually stock pictures contributing nothing to the discussion). If nothing is mentioned about geography after 1999 the documents apply to England only. Our responses to the Party’s processes are on our own policy page.  Official access to some of these documents is through the Labour Party site, but is restricted to Party members.

Since 1997 policy making takes place through the National Policy Forum and the Partnership in Power process. We submitted our views on this process in Extending Labour Party Democracy in September 2007. Before 1997 resolutions were debated at national conference. In either case they contribute to the party manifesto, of which there is a collection at Keele University back to 1945. If we go back to 1900 the only health demands in the Labour manifesto were “No Compulsory Vaccination” and “Public Control of the Liquor Traffic”.

• NOTES FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS June 15, 2018
• A State Health Service June 14, 2018
• For Socialism and Peace June 14, 2018
• Health Service debate 1934 Labour Party Conference June 14, 2018
• Labour’s Five Tests For The Government June 13, 2018
• You’re joking! Not another re-organisation? June 3, 2018
• Labour’s direction for health care March 13, 2018
• Health and Social Care: Tackling health inequalities March 5, 2018
• There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here January 14, 2018
• Immediate Priorities for the NHS and future Labour Party policies for the NHS December 23, 2017
• Sharon Hodgson’s speech on Public Health Priorities November 27, 2017
• Jon Ashworth’s speech at the Health Campaigns Together conference November 13, 2017
• Now for some real politics October 9, 2017
• Labour Has Committed To Renationalise Our NHS October 6, 2017
• The NHS – winning the case for investment September 4, 2017
• Who’s serious about the NHS? Reviewing the Labour and Conservative pledges June 5, 2017
• Healthcare for all May 16, 2017
• Labour Party to Ban Junk Food Adverts May 11, 2017
• Speech to Unison’s conference April 27, 2017
• Jon Ashworth at Socialist Health Association AGM Sat 11 March 2017 March 27, 2017
• Labour’s Health And Social Care consultation 2017 March 19, 2017
• Policy consultation – health and wellbeing February 3, 2017
• Corbyn Health policy December 15, 2016
• Dear Jon October 13, 2016
• Speech to Labour Annual Conference October 2, 2016
• Labour’s vision for the health service September 29, 2016
• Labour Party Conference NHS resolution September 28, 2016
• Secure our NHS and social care September 20, 2016
• Jeremy Corbyn’s vision for the NHS will rescue it from Tory dismantling September 2, 2016
• Speech on the NHS August 31, 2016
• Labour Must not Go Back to the Future – Again August 30, 2016
• West Midlands Health Briefing May 4, 2016
• What is on Offer for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Assembly Elections? April 26, 2016
• Mental Health: the way forward April 4, 2016
• Speech to the Nuffield Trust March 5, 2016
• Jos Bell proposing Labour party conference resolution October 7, 2015
• Labour Health Policy 2015 October 1, 2015
• A holistic approach to health and care September 24, 2015
• Labour puts mental health centre stage September 20, 2015
• Fight for Our NHS September 17, 2015
• New challenges or old for Labour health policy? September 15, 2015
• Labour Leadership and health August 21, 2015
• A Better Plan for the NHS Health and Care April 11, 2015
• Plans, Views, and our policy February 25, 2015
• Labour’s 10 Year Plan for Health and Care February 24, 2015
• Is the private sector always bad? January 30, 2015
• Labours’ vision for health and social care is clear – lets see what the others have got January 29, 2015
• Labour’s Ten Year Plan for Health and Care January 29, 2015
• What Plan? January 28, 2015
• Protecting Children, Empowering All January 19, 2015
• History (as interpreted by Irwin) Repeats Itself? January 12, 2015
• Nick Clegg’s claims about Labour’s NHS record December 15, 2014
• An NHS With Time To Care December 10, 2014
• Labour’s Health and Care Policy Summary October 15, 2014
• Labour’s Health and Care Policy September 8, 2014
• National Policy Forum Report July 20, 2014
• Labour’s Challenge June 30, 2014
• Health Policy Amendments June 20, 2014
• Access to GPs within 48 hours June 9, 2014
• Labour’s Policy Dilemma June 6, 2014
• Dignity in Dying’s submission to the Health and Care Policy consultation May 21, 2014
• Ed Miliband’s speech on Labour health policy May 13, 2014
• Proposed amendments to Stronger, Safer Communities May 11, 2014
• Proposed amendments to Work and Business May 11, 2014
• Proposed amendments to Better Politics May 10, 2014
• The NHS at the 2015 election May 6, 2014
• Labour’s public health policies May 4, 2014
• Labour’s nanny state plan for drinkers May 4, 2014
• The Independent Commission on Whole Person Care May 1, 2014
• Proposed amendments to Labour Mental Health Policy May 1, 2014
• Future options for the NHS April 30, 2014
• Breaking the Link between Disability and Poverty April 29, 2014
• Labour Party Disabled Members Group policy proposals April 28, 2014
• Proposed amendments to Labour Health Policy April 28, 2014
• Labour policies to tackle the social determinants of health? April 15, 2014
• Labour’s Health And Social Care Policy Consultation April 10, 2014
• Health and Care Policy Consultation March 19, 2014
• One Person One Team One System March 12, 2014
• Contribution to Labour Health Policy discussion December 2, 2013
• A One Nation Approach To Health And Social Care October 30, 2013
• Keep it Simple: whole person care October 23, 2013
• Labour Party Conference Resolution on the NHS September 27, 2013
• After Brighton – the Hard Work September 27, 2013
• Health policy and the NHS: choices for a Labour Government July 9, 2013
• A wellbeing programme for Labour July 6, 2013
• Why Free School Meals for All? June 26, 2013
• Labour’s NHS Mission June 24, 2013
• Policy Discussions on Health and Social Care June 23, 2013
• Evidence to the Labour Party Investigation into Health Service Organisation June 16, 2013
• 21st Century NHS and Social Care – Delivering Integration June 6, 2013
• The case for making health inequalities a top priority May 8, 2013
• Independent Commission on Whole Person Care April 27, 2013
• Andy Burnham’s plan for care, and questions that arise from it April 16, 2013
• 1997 Labour Party Policy March 28, 2013
• The So-What issue March 20, 2013
• Future options for the NHS March 10, 2013
• Dreams and Reality March 5, 2013
• Abolish the NHS Internal market February 28, 2013
• A public sector NHS ‘as if people mattered’ February 28, 2013
• Can we learn something from America? February 24, 2013
• The New NHS February 14, 2013
• ‘Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st Century January 24, 2013
• Labour is the party for our NHS January 23, 2013
• Fabian ’13 Conference – ‘Next State’ ‘A New NHS: Repeal The Act, But Then What?’ January 14, 2013
• Andy Burnham’s talk to Tower Hamlets Labour Party November 23, 2012
• COMPOSITE 4- Health & Social Care October 19, 2012
• The voice of experience October 13, 2012
• The Future of the NHS October 2, 2012
• #healthdebate October 1, 2012
• The Future of the NHS in England September 30, 2012
• Labour Party Policy for Disabled People September 28, 2012
• Labour Health Policy for 2015 September 21, 2012
• Labour Party Contemporary Motions 2012 September 11, 2012
• Improving the Health of the Nation August 23, 2012
• Labour Health Policy Consultation August 2, 2012
• An Alternative Vision for Health Policy August 1, 2012
• Labour should support personal health budgets July 26, 2012
• Labour’s National Policy Forum June 17, 2012
• Nye Bevan responds to Labour’s NPF health questions June 14, 2012
• Good and bad in the local NHS June 6, 2012
• What would you list as the key principles for any health and social care service? June 6, 2012
• How can services be made more accountable to patients, public and staff? June 6, 2012
• How can the NHS promote better mental health and well-being across the population? June 6, 2012
• Patient Experience June 6, 2012
• Labour Party Policy consultation June 2012 June 6, 2012
• Labour Party Policy consultation May 18, 2012
• Whose National Health Service is it? April 27, 2012
• A new health policy for Labour March 29, 2012
• Developing Labour Health Policy March 12, 2012
• Health 2000 — SHA’s Response April 4, 1994
• The time to hesitate is through November 7, 1980
• Labour, the Children’s Champion January 27, 1923

• Andy Burnham MP’s speech to Labour Party Annual Conference 2013
• Labour Party Conference Resolution on the NHS 2013
• Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st Century
• Labour’s Policy Review: Children, Food and Obesity 2013
• Composite 4 Health and Social Care October 2012
• The role of the private sector in the NHS Jan 2012
• What Next for Labour
• Labour Leadership Contest 2010 Health policies
• SHA proposed amendments – including notes on what happened to them;
•  Concensus on Public Services and Health
• Partnership in Power second year Final Consultation document for Health September 2007
• Consultation Document Health National Policy Forum July 2007
• Money Changers dismissed from the Temple (in Scotland and Wales) 2007
• Labour Party health policy and the Brown Government – what the leadership candidates said about health
• Labour Party Conference resolutions on Health September 2006
• Welsh Policy Forum Consultation Document Health and Social Care October 2006
• Labour Party NPF consultation document on health 2006
• Health Policy Commission Work Programme 2006
• Welsh Policy Forum Consultation Document Health and Social Care – Second Stage Consultation December 2005
• Nation’s Health and Social Change Pat Hewitt October 2005
• Future of the Health Service – Composite 6 Agreed at Party Conference September 2005
• The Nation’s Health and Social Change Pat Hewitt September 2005
• National Policy Forum document on Health July 2005
• Review of opposition health policies April 2005
• Welsh Policy Forum Consultation Document December 2004
• Improving health and education September 2004 The National Policy Forum documents agreed at Brighton Conference contain a great deal relevant to public health and health care in sections about other policies. These are extracted here.
• Public Services – Tony Blair January 2004
• Localism: The need for a new settlement – Alan Milburn
• Resolutions put to Conference 2003
• Health Policy Commission Report to Conference 2003
• John Reid MP, Secretary of State for Health, speeches (2003-2005)
• John Reid’s first speech on health 2003
• Improving Health and Social Care Consultation Document May 2003
• Health Policy Commission Newsletter May 2003
• National Policy Forum Interim Document February 2003
• Composite 2: Public Services October 2002 The two tier workforce
• Report to Party Conference September 2002
• SHA Response September 2002
• Improving Health and Social Care Consultation Document March 2002
• Alan Milburn MP, Secretary of State for Health, speeches (1998-2003)
• Composite 4 – Public Services October 2001
• National Policy Forum Report 1998
• Labour Party Health Care Working Party report 1973
• A scheme for a state medical service Labour Party May 1942
• Labour and the Hospitals November 1938 (exact status of this is not clear)