ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how little attention is paid to low-income country innovations, and how using textual analysis of policy documents, such as The Wanless Report, The Carter Review, and the NHS Long Term Plan, it can be shown that there is often a gaze that is focussed entirely on high-income countries and ‘usual suspect’ countries such as the US, France, and Germany. Other regions are essentially invisible and rarely compared to for UK policy analysis. Eventually, given enough texts, it is possible to discern a trend, a norm, an unwritten rule. Rich countries only learn from rich countries. Cheap healthcare innovation is not good enough for use in rich countries.
