The Nayler Report: NHS privatisation by the back door
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017The Nayler report, which Theresa May says she backs, requires the NHS to sell its assets as a condition of further funding. It’s privatisation by
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For the next two weeks talk should be about the 30,000 excess deaths in the NHS caused by austerity
Friday, May 26th, 2017In February this year the Independent reported: An unprecedented increase in “excess deaths” in England and Wales could be linked to underfunding in the NHS
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Theresa May: setting out to fail
Friday, May 19th, 2017Theresa May is, I suggest, setting out to fail. She made that clear yesterday. She made her shadow cabinet arrive at ‘her’ manifesto launch in
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Tory false promises
Monday, May 15th, 2017This comes from the Guardian this morning and says better than I could what I intended to put in a blog: To describe the Tories
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On Labour's missing big idea - which I hope is on its way
Monday, May 15th, 2017People are asking me what I think of the Labour Party manifesto as we currently know it. I have already praised the corporation tax policy.
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If we want decent IT then the government has to fund it - from the software onwards
Sunday, May 14th, 2017The weakness in government IT has been horribly exposed over the last few days. Everything from Trident to many hospitals run on Microsoft operating systems
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Why we can't run the NHS on Windows XP
Saturday, May 13th, 2017It is, of course, appropriate to condemn those who have written the virus that has deliberately crippled the NHS and put lives at risk and
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Turning people's savings into a wall of money for investment
Monday, May 8th, 2017I spoke on the Today programme at about 6.48 this morning. The discussion focussed on John McDonnell and his tax pledge to 95% of British
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Is it too much to ask to be cared for to the end?
Sunday, April 30th, 2017I had to say goodbye to a friend yesterday. Medicine is not, of course an exact science, but two doctors confirmed my own suspicion that
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