From citizens to corporate ‘chattels’; the ‘neoliberation’ of the NHS

By Martin Blanchard

This article is based upon a talk about how our healthcare data is to be used to support our ambition for ‘sustainable’ healthcare, and perhaps more importantly it seems, it is about our government’s expressed ambition that it will ‘kick-start’ economic growth and enable us to become some sort of ‘AI superpower.’ However, both the demand to ‘innovate’ in order to balance budgets legally imposed upon our 42 healthcare systems in the Health and Care Act 2022, and the creation of a remarkable healthcare database, bring major concerns about currently recognised
issues such as the ‘predation of knowledge and assets’ by Big tech corporations.

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