• The health unit was set up to facilitate informed and impartial debate among key stakeholders, patients, and the grassroots of the medical profession, in order to help build consensus on the future of health care in the UK.


• Our research aims to bring fresh thinking to problems facing the NHS through careful analysis and a consideration of what can be learnt from other health systems.


• From this, we endeavour to generate evidence-based ideas that are committed to high-quality, universal, safe and integrated health care.


• We have also helped to set up Young Civitas for Medics, a new society, now with over 1,000 members, that aims to engage medical students in debates about the future of health care and develop critical thinking skills.

Briefing: White Paper on NHS: Transferring commissioning responsibility from PCTs to GPs
- James Gubb, July 2010
The financial risk posed by the government's plans to transfer commissioning responsibility from PCTs to GPs is substantial and puts the £ 20bn efficiency savings the NHS is required to make in jeopardy. The last restructuring of commissioning, the merging of PCTs in 2006, caused an absolute drop in performance of at least a year. It took three years for the performance of those that were merged to catch up with those that were not.

Article: Let that be, minister, it can heal the NHS
- James Gubb, The Sunday Times, 11 July 2010
The NHS should be less about a system of nationalised provision and more about offering the best possible healthcare coverage.

News: Young Civitas for Medics
July 2010
Young Civitas for Medics, a new society that aims to engage medical students in debates about the future of health care and develop critical thinking skills, enters its second academic year.

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