Jos Bell
Jos is an author, NHS campaigner and disability spokesperson. She writes for Left Foot Forward on health policy and the NHS, disability rights and welfare reform.
Losing the plot: How the Lords rubbished the NHS bill – then voted for it anyway
Jos Bell gives an account of the key House Lords debate this week on the health and social care bill.
Pickles leak lays bare consequences of health, welfare and localism bills
Eric Pickles’s leaked warning that government plans to cut welfare payments risk making 40,000 families homeless appears to reflect deep concern in the DCLG.
Davies’s remarks are a much needed wake-up call; discrimination is alive and well
Philip Davies's disgusting, disgraceful, ignorant, ill-informed remarks about the disabled today have proved to be a much needed wake-up call, writes Jos Bell.
Lord Owen: Government acting with “no authority” over NHS reforms
Jos Bell reports on the latest criticism of health secretary Lansley's "fatally flawed" healthcare bill, from Lord Owen of.
The truth behind the coalition’s NHS proposals
Jos Bell argues that now is the time for doctors, nurses, unions, patients and Parliamentarians to be counted and oppose Andrew Lansley's NHS proposals.