Repoliticising national policy mobilities: Resisting the Americanization of universal healthcare

Policy mobilities scholarship has comprehensively challenged the methodological nationalism and rational orthodoxies of policy studies. Contributing to recent debates on post-politics, this paper examines how struggles over ‘national’ shape move. Focussing attempts embed accountable care models across English National Health Service (NHS), I consider ‘integration’ been mobilised as a seemingly irresistible solution failures market-orientated healthcare reforms in times austerity. Yet, foreground campaigners slowed down local contracting through repoliticising circulating ‘Americanization’ NHS. The emphasises ongoing, yet shifting politically contested, role state national spatial imaginaries making translating globally mobile policy. Rethinking spaces politics current conjuncture, conclude by warning limits nostalgia for post-war welfare when pushing universal right all.