Stephen Pollard will speak on the Labour government's attempts at reforming the UK National Health Service. He will analyse the history of NHS reform since its inception in 1948, and how the current government is seeking to adapt the old state-funded, state-delivered model to the new century's demands.

Thursday, 25 November 2004
Renaissance Hotel
Rue du Parnasse 19, Brussels

12:30 -13:15 Cocktails
13:15-14:30 Lecture, Discussion, Lunch

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Stephen Pollard is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, where he directs the health policy program. He has recently conducted seminars at 10 Downing Street on public sector reform. He is a political columnist who writes regularly in the Times and Sunday Telegraph, and in Wall Street Journal Europe, about politics, policy and culture.

He has been described by the Sunday Times as a New Labour ‘guru’, and by the New Statesman as a leading “British neoconservative”. His biography of the British Home Secretary, David Blunkett, will be published in January 2005. From 1998-2000 he was a columnist and Chief Leader Writer on the Daily Express. Before that, between 1995 and 1998, he was Head of Research at the Social Market Foundation, and from 1992-95 Research Director at the Fabian Society.

He was Research Assistant to Rt Hon Peter Shore MP 1989-92. He is the author of numerous pamphlets and books on health and education policy, and is co-author with Andrew Adonis (now the Prime Minister’s senior policy adviser) of the best-selling A Class Act – the Myth of Britain’s Classless Society (Penguin, 1998). He is also a senior fellow at Civitas, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, in London.

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