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The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine

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4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 158 minutes

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This episode was originally released November 10th, 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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.” Find Red Medicine here: https://linktr.ee/redmedicine.xyz 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: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603

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there's a moral architecture to this and you kind of highlighted it.

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And the moral architecture is that if you don't want to do shit work for poverty wages

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because you know it's a raw deal or if you are unable to work very reasonably for being

0:12.3

sick or disabled and not being able to do the work that's put in front of you,

0:16.5

you will be punished.

0:17.4

And not only will you be punished, the fault for these things are your fault.

0:21.6

You will internalize the failure of the economy, the nation state.

0:25.2

And it's all because of your personal decisions.

0:27.4

And because they're your personal decisions, we're well within our rights to deny access to the means of surviving.

1:02.6

Thank you. I'm I'm Welcome to the death panel.

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Patrons, thank you so much for supporting the show.

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None of the work that we do would be possible without you.

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To become a supporter of the show and get access to the second weekly bonus episode,

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as well as the entire back catalog of bonus episodes, become a patron at patreon.com slash death panel pod. And to help us out some more, share the show with your friends, post about your

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favorite episodes, pick up copies of health communism, a short history of trans misogyny and abolish

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rent at your local bookstore, or request them at your local library and follow us at

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Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Soutler Bolton and I'm honored to be here today with our

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guest and friend of the panel, Sam Kelly of Red Medicine. Sam is an organizer in London with

1:43.0

RS21 and the host and producer of Red

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Medicine. Red Medicine is a British podcast about the political economy of health, and I've asked

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Sam on today to talk about the recently released tenure plan from England's National Health

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Service, which is a sweeping proposal that lays out the government's vision for the NHS's future. It's also a very

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