Thornton, Jim

Thornton, Jim
Gender	male
Academic title	Prof. Dr.
(Other) employerNot all of the people we document here at TTNI are employed at the Think Tank: typically members of advisory boards for example wont get paid. The term (Other) employer is therefore a bit misleading.	Nottingham City Hospital
Staff member in	Progressive Vision
Advisory Board member in	Reform
Subject of study	Medicine
Topics	Obststrics, Gynaecology

Prof. Dr. Jim Thornton is senior fellow of the think tank Progressive Vision.

Notes

In this section we list interesting things that still have to be researched further, or that do not fit into the other sections.
In February 2011, a Freedom of Information request was made to the University of Nottingham about the communication between Thornton, the think-tank Reform and the organization Doctors for Reform.

Influence fields of Person

In this section we try to document where the person has which influence.

Author for Think Tank

• Institute of Economic Affairs, Report containing suggestions to charge for certain medical procedures in the UK which was heavily critizised in the public

Membership in Think Tank sphere

• Reform, He was member of the think tank's advisory board

Notes on the influence fields

Often people are present in various fields, but there presence can't be connected to specific actors (e.g. it is often senseless to connect the media presence of politicians to particular newspapers). We use this section to document these unspecific, but nonetheless important presences.
Thornton co-authored a report for the think tank Reform on failures in the NHS (e.g. child deaths as a result of midwife shortages) which received some media coverage.