This is how the NHS will fall over
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011The Guardian has reported: Thousands of older patients are being forced to stay in hospital long after they are fit enough to leave, doctors are
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The cancer at the core of the NHS
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011Polly Toynbee has written this morning: For the first time the entire NHS has been put under competition law. The financial and clinical safety of
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2011 – in anticipation
Saturday, January 1st, 2011So, I’ve reflected on 2010, what hopes for 2011? Politics We’ll still have a coalition government — but the Lib Dems will begin to defect.
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Lansley – likely to kill you, the NHS, or both
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010The Guardian has reported in the last hour or so: Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, announced today that the government will push ahead with radical
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Just don’t get ill, whatever you do
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010As the Guardian notes: The government has no "credible plan" to make NHS savings of £20bn by 2014 aa committee of MPs warns today. The
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Pickles doesn’t get the need for capital
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010The Guardian has reported that: The communities secretary Eric Pickles today accuses councils of squirreling away cash while simultaneously making thousands of job cuts and
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Three cheers for the NHS!
Thursday, November 18th, 2010From the Guardian today: The NHS is the only health system in the industrialised world where wealth does not determine access to care — providing
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Let’s get real: co-ops need capital too – and I suspect they won’t get it
Thursday, November 18th, 2010The government is saying people who work for the public sector should establish coops to provide these services — whether they be probation, tax collection
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More Durkin madness
Friday, November 12th, 2010More wonders from Durkin. The amount of benefit paid in the UK must be cut massively. Then: Low taxes in Hong Kong did for them
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