Where we have talked but not yet dared to tread – using charging as a means to control high demand for GP services, for example – New Zealand has already implemented.
I guess modernisation is inevitable, but we really do need to reflect a little on the tradition we’ll lose.
The older generation deserve much better proactive care.
Behind the arguments that the left throws up against the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is an anti-free trade, anti-liberalism, and anti-US agenda.
It will be both unfair and politically toxic if new funding allocated by the Chancellor is distributed by NHS England on a basis set out by the last Labour Government.
Our principal recommendation is to establish a new body to provide better co-ordination amongst civil society, Government departments and supermarkets.
The ‘something must be done’ never happens.
His recent statement on unwell children and medical attention is at odds with the recommendation to call your GP Surgery or NHS 111.
Osborne’s stamp duty reform gets a thumbs-up. But reaction to other measures is more mixed – and deep concern about the deficit remains.
Just as Labour refused to accept the problems of poor care in England before, they stick their heads in the sand about poor care in Labour-controlled Wales today.
As a carer, I have seen how patients could be supported, families helped and money saved by keeping elderly and vulnerable people out of hospital.
There will be no shortage of claimants for the Chancellor’s extra £billions. But none of them should forget the necessity of reform.
There are two immediate, costless and politically smart things we should be doing right now.
The former Health Secretary had a majority of over 15,000 in Charnwood
Privatisation? It was Labour that third sector and private companies into the health service supply chain in the first place.