Bevan’s cry that the Tories want to demolish the NHS was not heard on Friday when new private diagnostic centres were announced.
Private healthcare should be an option for the many, not just the few. The Government should make this option more affordable.
A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.
The Government is poised to reverse the trend to competition rather than collaboration that has marked healthcare policy for 30 years.
It’s a politically sensitive subject and the Government has a lot on its plate, but the Treasury is right to be concerned with ensuring value for money.
The political sting must be taken out of our healthcare debate. Conflicting ideas over privatisation, taxation and automation should be given serious, non-partisan review.
But the collapse of the Tory manifesto social care plan, plus the Government’s lack of a workable Commons majority, all but rule out radical change to the system.
Low aspirational parenting and teaching are key problems.
Downing Street and Conservative MPs should not abandon this reforming Health Secretary under pressure from the BMA and the unions.
Twenty years at Harriet Harman’s high altar of all women shortlists and selection quotas are duly delivering their reward – for the Conservatives.
Here in Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland, we have a strong message, the right conditions for it, and the right people to spread it.
“Polly Toynbee hasn’t written about me for six months…Mind you, if you write that, there will be a stinker of an article.”
Research found that just a 30-minute drive by car to an alternative provider of NHS care, public or private, can shave 14 weeks off your waiting time, lowering it from 22 weeks to just eight.