Alex Scott-Samuel Explained

Alex Scott-Samuel is a British retired lecturer in public health at the University of Liverpool, where he was the director of the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium. He is the chair of Wavertree Constituency Labour Party and has a seat on the Labour Party regional board for the northwest. He was the chair of the Socialist Health Association between 2017 and 2020 and is involved in the Keep Our NHS Public movement.[1]

Career

Until his retirement in late 2015, Scott-Samuel was a senior lecturer in public health and policy at the University of Liverpool.[2] He has published on topics related to health impact assessment, health inequalities, gender inequality and the politics of health.[3] In 1979 he established a politics of health journal, which later became Critical Public Health. Later he established the UK Politics of Health Group.[4]

In 2014, he was the joint author of a paper published in the International Journal of Health Services which claimed that the policies of Margaret Thatcher's government had led to the "unnecessary and unjust premature death of many British citizens, together with a substantial and continuing burden of suffering and loss of well-being".[5] In 2015 he described Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England as the "cheerleader-in-chief for NHS privatisation".[6]

He supported the campaign to preserve the independence of Liverpool Women's Hospital, saying that the proposal to move it was part of the government plans to cut services and eventually privatise them.[7]

In 2017, he stood for election to the Momentum executive, and said that he was "an adviser to Labour's shadow health minister". At the 2017 Labour Party Conference, he proposed a motion on health policy on behalf of the Socialist Health Association calling for the reinstatement of the NHS "as per the NHS Bill (2016-17)". It was carried unanimously.[8]

Scott-Samuel submitted a motion of no confidence in former Labour MP Luciana Berger, which was subsequently withdrawn[9] after Tom Watson called for the Wavertree party to be suspended.[10]

Articles in The Economist and The Times as well as The Jewish Chronicle have called Scott-Samuel a conspiracy theorist.[11] [12] [13] Both Wes Streeting and Alex Sobel called for his expulsion from the Labour party on this basis.[14]

Personal life

According to the constituency party, Scott-Samuel is Jewish.[15]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. News: Medical centre in Leasowe handed over to private company after Wirral NHS trust loses contract . 25 March 2019 . Liverpool Echo . 9 July 2015.
  2. News: University of Liverpool Disassociates From Lecturer Who Shared Rothschild Conspiracy on Controversial Talk Show . 16 November 2022 . The Algemeiner . 12 February 2019.
  3. News: Alex Scott Samuel . 20 February 2019 . Dimensions . 21 March 2013.
  4. News: Health inequities need global political solutions . 25 March 2019 . University World News . 14 March 2014.
  5. News: Legacy of Margaret Thatcher's reign is thousands of 'unjust' deaths of Britons, says study . 20 February 2019 . The Express . 12 February 2014.
  6. News: Alex . Scott-Samuel . Simon Stevens—cheerleader-in-chief for NHS privatisation . opinion . 20 February 2019 . British Medical Journal . 1 May 2015.
  7. News: ECHO readers dismayed over plans to move Liverpool Women's Hospital . 25 March 2019 . Liverpool Echo . 6 January 2017.
  8. Web site: O'Sullivan . Tony . Historic moment as Labour Conference unanimously recommits to restoring an NHS for all . Keep Our NHS Public . . 27 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200317101720/https://keepournhspublic.com/historic-moment-as-labour-conference-unanimously-recommits-to-restoring-an-nhs-for-all/ . 17 March 2020 . . 27 September 2017 . An excellent motion was passed including a robust call for a defence of the NHS in England now and a move to reinstate it 'as per the NHS Bill (2016-17)'. Alex Scott-Samuel of the Socialist Health Association and Doctors For The NHS proposed 'Composite 8: The NHS' very movingly and the motion was seconded by Sue Richards of Islington CLP. Both are members of Keep Our NHS Public. The motion was carried unanimously. . live.
  9. News: Harpin . Lee . Senior Wavertree CLP member in 'Nazi masters' attack on Luciana Berger . 20 February 2019 . Jewish Chronicle . 18 February 2018.
  10. News: Formby denies Labour leadership is ignoring MPs on antisemitism . 20 February 2019 . The Guardian . 12 February 2019.
  11. News: Harpin . Lee . 18 February 2019 . Revealed: McDonnell's meetings with Rothschild conspiracy theorist . Jewish Chronicle . 16 November 2022.
  12. News: Bagehot . Britain is becoming a land of conspiracy theorists: The 'paranoid style' has crossed the Atlantic . 16 November 2022 . The Economist . opinion . 7 March 2019.
  13. News: Baxter . Sarah . Corbyn's bullying Labour party is dashing the hopes of the young . 25 March 2019 . The Sunday Times . opinion . 10 March 2019.
  14. News: Labour finally suspends activist who shared antisemitic post . 20 February 2019 . The Times . 16 February 2018.
  15. News: UK: Anti-Semitism witch-hunt provokes backlash in Labour Party . 25 March 2019 . World Socialist Web Site . 12 February 2019.
  16. Scott-Samuel . Alex . Personal Health Budgets in England: Mood Music or Death Knell for the National Health Service? . International Journal of Health Services . 1 January 2015 . 45 . 1 . 73–86 . 10.2190/hs.45.1.f . 26460448 . 25710198 . free .
  17. News: After a summer of crisis and opportunity, can Labour's progressive NHS policies be sustained? . 25 March 2019 . Open Democracy . 12 October 2019.
  18. News: Peter Draper obituary . 25 March 2019 . The Guardian . 22 August 2016.
  19. News: The NHS has become simply a logo for a partially privatised system – and the roots of the change go back to Davos . 25 March 2019 . Labour List . 3 June 2017.

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