Norman Warner
Lord Warner is a former health minister and member of the Dilnot commission on funding of care and support for adults. He was appointed chair of the Social Care Funding Commission by the coalition government.
CommentThe NHS is still stuck in the sixties
Despite big changes in diseases, drugs, technologies and lifespan, NHS service delivery looks trapped in its 1948 aspic. Hard questions need asking about what the NHS is delivering, given its impact on the funding of other public services, writes Norman Warner
CommentWarner: Why I will be voting for NHS competition regulations
The battle over draft NHS provider competition regulations
CommentWe must beat our hospital addiction
Fresh thinking is needed to avoid a social care funding crisis, says Lord Warner
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Norman Warner: will a new Beveridge emerge?
What are the “giant” challenges facing Britain today, and will a new Beveridge emerge to tackle them, asks Norman Warner.
CommentCan GPs become agents of change, or will they remain gatekeepers?
In my forthcoming book on the NHS and reform, I have devoted a chapter to trying to answer the question of whether GPs can move from gatekeepers to change agents. Andrew Lansley’s reforms pose the same question along with others – do a sufficient number of them want to make ...