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.
