Our history

2020health.org was formed at the end of 2006 by Julia Manning with the support of health professionals and stakeholders in healthcare. Right from the start the aim was to enable ‘the grassroots’ to develop and influence policy based on their knowledge and expertise. Capturing front line experience as a primary source of ideas remains the core means by which we aim improve healthcare in the UK. After 19 years in the NHS, Julia left to work full-time with 2020health at the end of 2009.

In the past we have worked with the following organizations:

Abbott                                                    London School of Economics
Accenture                                               and Political Science
Alzheimer’s Society                               Lundbeck
AOP                                                        Medtronic
Association of the British                       Mental Health Trusts

Healthcare Industries                              National Association of Primary Care
Association of the British                       National Voices      
Pharmaceutical Industry                         NHS Alliance
Birmingham University                          NHS Confederation      
Black Mental Health UK                        NHS Partners    
British Dental Association                      Patient’s Association   
British Healthcare Trades                       Pfizer 
Association                                             Primary Care Trusts
British Infection Association                  Proprietary Association of Great Britain  
British Medical Association                   Royal College of General Practitioners    
British Telecommunications plc             Royal College of Nursing        
Bromley-by-Bow                                    Royal College of Paediatrics
Cancer Research UK                               and Child Health
City University                                        Royal College of Surgeons

Coca-Cola                                                Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Denplan                                                   Sanofi-Aventis
Dental Practitioners Association             Sanofi Pasteur MSD
Dispensing Doctors Association             Southwark council
EDS-Hewlett Packard                             Tunstall
Foundation Trust                                     UK Specialist Hospitals
Genzyme                                                 Vodafone

GlaxoSmithKline                                    Warwickshire council
iSoft                                             
Kent council                                  
Lambeth council                            
Lincoln council

All of 2020health’s externally sponsored projects are undertaken with ‘unrestricted educational grants’ that ensure 2020health retains all editorial control and the independence of their reports.