Joe Farrington-Douglas
Associate Fellow
Joe Farrington-Douglas is a freelance researcher and adviser on health and social care policy and strategy. He was health policy adviser to the Leader of the Opposition and the Shadow Health Secretary in 2011.
He was previously Senior Policy Manager at the NHS Confederation, the organisation representing all organisations in the National Health Service in government and the media, where he led work on system reform and acute service policy and strategy. He has worked as a civil servant in the Cabinet Office Regulatory Impact Unit on public sector regulation.
Joe worked at IPPR from 2005 to 2008, leading on health policy including major projects on healthcare funding, patient choice and hospital reconfiguration. He also led IPPR's work on youth justice.
Joe has a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Sussex. He is a community volunteer and political activist in Islington.
Publications
Towards a Popular, Preventative Youth Justice System
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas, Lucia Durante
21 Jun 2009
The Future Hospital: The politics of change
Author(s) : Richard Brooks, Joe Farrington-Douglas
28 May 2007
The Future Hospital: The progressive case for change
Author(s) : Richard Brooks, Joe Farrington-Douglas
07 Jan 2007
Articles
Towards a Lehman Health Service? - 19 Jan 2012
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
Tough love - 02 Jul 2009
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
Why NHS must keep an eye on the private sector - 26 Jun 2008
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
Topping up: Should it be allowed in the NHS? - 17 Jun 2008
Author(s) : James Crabtree, Joe Farrington-Douglas
Progressive populism - 02 Jun 2008
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
We must take politics out of the process of improving our hospitals - 28 May 2007
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
A case for change - 20 Feb 2007
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
Too high a price to pay - 21 Jul 2006
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
Speak Out: Commissioning healthcare - 20 Jul 2006
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
This time it's personal - 01 Mar 2006
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
The power of choice - 16 Nov 2005
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
Review of the week: hospital politics bad for society - 11 Mar 2005
Author(s) : Joe Farrington-Douglas
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