Not What The Bus Promised
Health Governance after Brexit
Tamara Hervey author Mark L Flear author Dr Ivanka Antova author Dr Matthew Wood author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:5th Oct '23
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This is an interdisciplinary, eclectic, methodological study of the impact of Brexit on healthcare and the NHS in the UK.
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.
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 *
A creative and courageous book * Katy Hayward, Queen's University Belfast *
Meticulous and informative, but also gripping and even moving in parts. -- Charlotte Godziewski * City, University of London *
[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 *
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 *
A must-read … covers multiple layers of health governance … compelling and highly informative … rigorous, detailed and nuanced … well-researched, rich and multifaceted in its analysis, and written in an engaging way that should appeal to both academics and policy makers. * European Law Review *
[A] standout contribution to socio-legal methodology both within and well beyond health law. * Journal of Law and Society *
ISBN: 9781509951499
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280 pages