Skip To Main Content
Christopher Thomas on Muck Rack

Christopher Thomas

Forest Hill
As seen in: MSN UK, The Independent (UK), Yahoo News UK, Memory Studies, Daily Star (UK), The Times, ACS Publications, Education Week, The Yorkshire Post, EIN News and
Writer of long policy docs. Author 10 Year Health Plan for England. The Five Health Frontiers published 2021. Founder Commission on Health and Prosperity @ippr
Back to Christopher Thomas’s profile

Christopher Thomas’s Journalist Portfolio

View as a list
How to Make Social Care Better

How to Make Social Care Better

A week ago, the Prime Minister delivered a long-anticipated plan for social care and health. The headline ann…

View article →
How Decades of Neoliberalism Left the NHS on the Brink

How Decades of Neoliberalism Left the NHS on the Brink

A steady stream of alarming data continues to emerge from the NHS. Last week, it was confirmed that waiting l…

View article →
How Britain's Growing Inequality Left Poorer People to Die During Covid-19

How Britain's Growing Inequality Left Poorer People to Die During Covid-19

In the 2019 Conservative leadership election, Boris Johnson introduced a term that has since defined his plat…

View article →
Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

National Carers Week, last week, was an opportunity to reflect on the vital contribution of unpaid care to so…

View article →
Inequality Is Bad for Your Health

Inequality Is Bad for Your Health

This week marks another step on our road out of lockdown. For the first time in months, pubs, restaurants, gy…

View article →

View article →
Years in the Making

Years in the Making

The NHS crisis didn't begin with Covid-19 - years of outsourcing, competitiveness reforms, and obsessions ove…

View article →
1% Is Not Enough - It's Time for NHS Pay Justice

1% Is Not Enough - It's Time for NHS Pay Justice

On 17 March 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood in front of the nation and declared: 'We must act like a…

View article →
The Government Has Failed to Inoculate Against Social Inequality

The Government Has Failed to Inoculate Against Social Inequality

At the start of the pandemic, a Covid-19 vaccine was anything but certain. Medical science is as hard as it i…

View article →
Why has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?

Why has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?

The government has gone quiet on prevention, but it could save the NHS, boost the economy and level up the co…

View article →
Opinion: Time to run the NHS at the top of its game, not the top of its capacity

Opinion: Time to run the NHS at the top of its game, not the top of its capacity

Independent Premium Voices Covid-19 demonstrates that the current approach to NHS efficiency has failed - eve…

View article →
Racism Is Not a Culture War Toy - It's a Fact of Life in Britain

Racism Is Not a Culture War Toy - It's a Fact of Life in Britain

The report of the Independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities-published on 31 March 2021-caused jus…

View article →
Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas

On Windrush Day, the Tory government is once again downplaying the importance of racism in British society - …

View article →
It's Time to Renew the Radical Vision Behind the NHS

It's Time to Renew the Radical Vision Behind the NHS

The NHS is undeniably Britain's most popular institution. Polling to mark the Service's 70 th birthday found …

View article →
Remembering the Aberfan Disaster

Remembering the Aberfan Disaster

Just after nine AM on 21 October 1966, teachers and children in the village of Aberfan settled in for the las…

View article →
How UK can become cancer care world leader - Chris Thomas

How UK can become cancer care world leader - Chris Thomas

What can be done to tackle the backlog of cancer cases? While Covid-19 did not cause the total 'collapse' ini…

View article →
Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

Only one politically acceptable social care solution can break the deadlock

National Carers Week, last week, was an opportunity to reflect on the vital contribution of unpaid care to so…

View article →