Jonn Elledge

is a journalist covering business and public policy. He read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and has contributed to the New Statesman, TCS Daily and Smoke: A London Peculiar.

The NHS database is in a critical condition

Tony Blair's 'grand projet' to revolutionise the NHS has turned into a £12 billion catastrophe

First Posted August 13, 2009

How unpaid internships have made the media so middle class

The media depends on unpaid internships, which means only the middle classes can afford to enter the profession

First Posted August 5, 2009

Confidentiality sacrificed as researchers get patients' records

The General Medical Council is to allow doctors to hand over patient records in the name of scientific research

First Posted June 1, 2009

Nobody can handle the truth about PFI

Fifteen years and £57bn later, we still don't know if private finance intiatives work

First Posted September 8, 2008

NHS database awaits legal diagnosis

A recent EU court judgment could scupper the £6bn NHS patient database, says Jonn Elledge

First Posted August 12, 2008