Project start date: February 2019
Project duration: 2 years
Funding awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council
Follow the project on Twitter @brexithealthlaw
Project Information
Professor Tamara Hervey, from the University of Sheffield’s School of Law, is leading a two-year project with Queen’s University Belfast looking at post-Brexit governance in an area that was critical in the referendum debates: health and the NHS. The project is part of the ESRC's Governance after Brexit programme.
The project team is Professor Hervey; Dr Matthew Wood (University of Sheffield's Department of Politics) and Dr Mark Flear (Queen's University Belfast's School of Law); and Dr Ivanka Antova (Queen's University Belfast's School of Law).
Guided by co-producers from the health policy sector, we are analysing the implications for health and the NHS of new post-referendum legal texts as they emerge. We are also gathering views from the public in the North of England and Northern Ireland using ‘hit and run’ street conversations – a novel form of ethnographic research.
Project Aims
We are comparing the legal language, the elite language used in health contexts, and the language of the public, focusing on metaphors and stories, to uncover the extent to which post-Brexit health governance can be said to be legitimate.
Health and the NHS remain critical to public and elite understandings of EU membership and what will be possible outside of the EU. We are studying the unfolding post-Brexit legal settlement to see its impact on health, and what experts and the public think about its meaning and significance.
Professor Tamara Hervey
Collaborators
We are working closely with several external collaborators including:
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Members of Parliament
- CORU
News
'Brexit, Health and Me' documentary receives wide audience via Amazon Prime
The Health Governance after Brexit team have long enjoyed a close and fruitful collaboration with ShouOutUK. One of the pillars of this collaboration has been the film 'Brexit, Health and Me', which looks closely at the ways Brexit is going to impact healthcare and our NHS. We are delighted to announce that, in the short time the film has been available on Amazon Prime, it has been viewed over 4000 times. Not only does this confirm to us that the project's work is reaching a wide audience, it also shows how public interest in issues like Brexit, health/healthcare and the NHS is very high. We hope that as many people as possible will watch the film and that it continues to stimulate discussion of the pressing contemporary issues it explores.
You can see a trailer for the film below and can access the full film on Amazon Prime video.
Tamara Hervey joined an expert panel for the European Health Forum Gastein to discuss the question: 'Have we failed to protect Europe's People? The case for a European Health Union'. See the panel discussion below.
Our team has been working with Shout Out UK to produce a documentary exploring the perspectives, hopes and expectations for health and the NHS in the aftermath of Brexit.
The documentary is freely accessible on Shout Out UK’s learning portal along with helpful resources and a quiz pack. These resources are popular with school teachers and youth leaders, for teaching pupils how democracy and the media works.
The ‘Brexit, Health & Me’ pack will be provided free to over one thousand schools in the UK to engage students following A Level Politics courses and similar courses in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and for general civic education. The pack is perfect for home learning, which is still the norm for the vast majority of secondary school students at present.
Register for free and access the course here: https://education.shoutoutuk.org/
Shout Out UK trailer
- Policy analysis/briefings
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Tamara Hervey, Mark Flear, Matthew Wood and Ivanka Antova contribute to The UK in a Changing Europe's new report: Brexit and Beyond, January 2020
Briefing for the Faculty of Public Health: Policy, Planning and Preparedness, October 2020
Briefing Paper on EHIC rights of Northern Ireland Born Irish Citizens,2019
Briefing for Kidney Care UK Brexit's implications for dialysis poster, August 2019
Briefing for Kidney Care UK Post Brexit Dialysis Scenario, 2019
Briefing for Kidney Care UK Dialysis Abroad After Brexit: Summary, August 2019
Briefing for Kidney Care UK Dialysis Abroad After Brexit: Detailed Analysis
Briefing for Kidney Care UK: Concern for dialysis patients who wish to travel in Europe after Brexit
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Evidence sessions
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Hervey, T., Wood, M., et al, Evidence to the EU Environment Sub-Committee, February 2020
- Academic outputs
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Hervey, T., et al, 'More Competences than You Knew? The Web of Health Competence for European Union Action in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak', (2020), European Journal of Risk Regulation
McHale, J., et al., 'Health Law and Policy: Devolution and Brexit', (2019), Regional Studies
Flear, M. L., & Mac Sithigh, D. ‘Northern Irish Legal Education After Brexit’ (2019) The Law Teacher
- Blog posts
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Tamara Hervey, 'Health Insurance in the Brexit Deal', The UK in a Changing Europe, January 2021
Tamara Hervey discusses Brexit, the impact of Covid-19 on the NHS and how well the UK and EU member states have handled the pandemic, The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast, April 2020
Tamara Hervey, 'Brexit and Mental Health', UK in a Changing Europe Blog, October 2019
Tamara Hervey, 'How Can Legal Scholars Study Cultures Far From their Own, SLSA Blog, August 2019
- Conference papers
- Media
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Tamara Hervey discusses Brexit, the impact of Covid-19 on the NHS and how well the UK and EU member states have handled the pandemic, The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast, April 2020
Mark Flear warns that Brexit could delay UK access to a coronavirus vaccine, Politico, March 2020
Mark Flear et al. clarify the EU's ventilator scheme, The Guardian, March 2020
Tamara Hervey interviewed in the article 'Healthcare top issue in UK general election, says professor', Xinhua, November 2019
- Project reports
- Past events
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Healthy Partnerships? The Impact of Brexit & the Priorities for Sovereign Cooperation
19 January 2021
Hosted by the EU-UK Forum, Tamara Hervey joined a panel of other experts to discuss Brexit's impact on NHS recruitment, cross-border cooperation, and the effects of sovereign independence on vaccine procurement.
Health Policy in the EU and "European" health care
13th January 2021
Tammara Hervey presented the project's paper on ‘Brexternalities’ and the effect of Brexit on healthcare outside of the UK, at this seminar. This paper can be viewed in the 'Academic Outputs' drop-down menu above.
GreensEFA in the EP: first EU-UK agreement briefing re Social Security and Labour Law
8th January 2021
Tamara Hervey presented her gap analysis of the Withdrawal Agreement.
Northern/Ireland Health law & Ethics Network (N/IHLEN) & Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) virtual symposium
11 December 2020
Mark Flear co-convened this event which addressed 'Covid-19 and Legal Responses on the Island of Ireland'. Ivanka Antova presented on policy responses to Covid-19 and disability.
Brexit: Legal, Public Health, Food Supply & Security Impacts
24 November 2020
Tamara Hervey participated in the Socialist Health Association event where she spoke on the current legal implications of Brexit for healthcare and the NHS.
Covid-19, EU Transition, and the Welsh Health and Social Care Sector
23 June 2020
Tamara Hervey formed part of an expert panel to discuss the Brexit transition period and the complicating factor of government's Covid-19 response.
Law Through a Lens: Brexit, Health and Me
29th April 2020
A discussion with staff and students was held about how legal and policy research in the University of Sheffield - including undergraduate and postgraduate student research - contributes to real world problems.
- Photos
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Professor Tamara Hervey, School of Law, University of Sheffield
Dr. Mark Flear, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Dr. Ivanka Antova, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Natalia Miernik, School of Law
