Nick Timmins

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

Biography

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

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

• 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