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

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Biography

Timmins attended Kingswood School in Bath, followed by

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, where he graduated with a degree in English Language & Literature in 1971.

Career

He was the Health and Social Services Correspondent of ''

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'' and then '' The Independent''. From 1996 to 2011 he was public policy editor of the '' Financial Times''. He is now a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and the

King’s Fund The King's Fund is an independent think tank, which is involved with work relating to the health system in England. It organises conferences and other events. Since 1997, they have jointly funded a yearly award system with GlaxoSmithKline. T ...

and a Senior Associate of the Nuffield Trust www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk. He is a visiting professor in social policy at the London School of Economics and was president of the

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between 2008 and 2011.

Bibliography

*''The Five Giants, A biography of the Welfare State'', Fontana Press, 1996, *''Glaziers and window breakers, The role of the Secretary of State for Health, in their own words,'' Health Foundation, 2015 * ''The Covid-19 vaccination programme: Trials, tribulations and successes.'' Health Foundation 2022

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Timmins, Nick Living people English political journalists Alumni of Regent's Park College, Oxford Financial Times people Year of birth missing (living people)