The NHS Pay Cartel – regional pay by the back door
The Olympic opening ceremony rightly celebrated the NHS in all its glory. as a national treasure and as…
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Labour should support personal health budgets
The left has always been strong on protection for the vulnerable but all too often this comes at…
Another broken promise – Cameron cuts the NHS
Cameron said he wouldn’t cut the NHS – but he has, by £26 million this year. That’s the second…
To the Tories the NHS and hospitals are a photo opportunity
It is not surprising that the NHS was high on the agenda at our conference this week. For…
Whatever you say today Ed – it can’t be worse than this
Today Ed Miliband is speaking to the Royal College of Nursing. But whatever he says today, it can’t…
Risk register veto – A desperate act and an admission of defeat
Yesterday the Cabinet decided to veto the release of the risk register for their massive NHS reorganisation, which…
The NHS and Labour – after the bill
The Health and Social Care Bill has passed and fundamentally changed our NHS, moving it to a regulated…
Andy Burnham on the next step of Labour’s NHS campaign
Earlier this week I spoke briefly to Andy Burnham about the next step of Labour’s campaign against the…
We can’t afford to be divided over the NHS
As a health professional who has worked as part of a multi-professional team in the NHS I have…
Osborne’s £500 million budget raid on the NHS
If we thought all of the budget nasties were out already with the “granny tax”, we were wrong.…
