Teaser - The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine (11/10/25)

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/143208719 Beatrice is joined by Sam Kelly of the Red Medicine to discuss how the politics of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) evolved under the neoliberal turn and what the recently released NHS 10 year plan tells us about the future of health struggle not just in Britain but internationally, promising as it does to make the NHS “the most AI enabled care system in the world” and to transform it “into an engine for economic growth, rather than a beneficiary of it.” Runtime 2:37:45 After many, many requests we're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

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0:06.5	Welcome to the death panel.
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0:38.0	underscore i'm beatrice outler bolton and i'm honored to be here today with our guest and friend of
0:43.4	the panel sam kelly of red medicine sam is an organizer in london with r s 21 and the host and producer
0:50.2	of red medicine red medicine is a brit British podcast about the political economy of health,
0:55.1	and I've asked Sam on today to talk about the recently released tenure plan from England's
0:59.7	National Health Service, which is a sweeping proposal that lays out the government's vision for
1:05.1	the NHS's future. It's also a very revealing document that gives us a sense of the future of global health
1:11.6	politics and a case study in how states are thinking about rewriting the social contract
1:16.4	under the banner of modernization and patient freedom. Sam, welcome to the death panel. It is so, so
1:23.7	great to finally have you on the show. Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm very, very
1:28.3	happy to be here and to be able to talk to you. I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
1:32.5	We've been talking about having it for a while because in July, the British government unveiled
1:37.8	its 10-year health plan called Fit for the Future, which we could have a whole conversation
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