The PFI legacy – and a way forward
Over the summer the financial difficulty of NHS trusts, some of which have Private Finance Initiatives, gave Lansley…
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Would you trust this man with the NHS?
Jeremy Hunt has been promoted (!). He’s now the Health Secretary. In the unlikely event that you’d forgotten,…
We need to avoid NHS knee-jerks
The NHS provides a range of invaluable services. Foremost among these has to be the testing of knee…
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…
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…
