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Nick Timmins

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Nicholas James Maxwell Timmins is a British author and journalist who writes about the welfare state and the National Health Service.

Biography

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Timmins attended Kingswood School in Bath, followed by Regent's Park College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in English Language & Literature in 1971.[1]

Career

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He was the Health and Social Services Correspondent of The Times and then The Independent. From 1996 to 2011 he was public policy editor of the Financial Times.[2] He is now a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the King’s Fund and a Senior Associate of the Nuffield Trust www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk.[3] He is a visiting professor in social policy at the London School of Economics and was president of the Social Policy Association between 2008 and 2011.[4]

Bibliography

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  • The Five Giants, A biography of the Welfare State, Fontana Press, 1996, ISBN 0006863183
  • Glaziers and window breakers, The role of the Secretary of State for Health, in their own words, Health Foundation, 2015[5]
  • The Covid-19 vaccination programme: Trials, tribulations and successes. Health Foundation 2022 ISBN 978-1-915303-00-4

References

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  1. ^ "Timmins, Nicholas James Maxwell-, (born 7 Sept. 1949), chronicler and author; Public Policy Editor, Financial Times, 1996–2011". Who's Who. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Nicholas Timmins". Institute for Government. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  3. ^ Timmins, Nicholas (1 September 2017). "How much localism in healthcare is too much?". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Nicholas Timmins". King's Fund. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Glaziers and window breakers". Health Foundation. Retrieved 8 October 2017.