Not What The Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit

Author: Tamara Hervey; Ivanka Antova; Mark L. Flear; Matthew Wood
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509951499

Published In: October 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509951536

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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; cross-border healthcare especially in 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'.

Health Governance after Brexit 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.

1. Introduction

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