There is a mismatch between Government announcements and Commons realities. It cannot attempt reforms without risking them being amended out of recognition.
It was Henry Willink, supported by Churchill, who declared the NHS should be “free at the point of delivery, according to need not ability to pay.”
There is a strong case for altering the balance of welfare spending between working people and those retired.
These archaic machines cause NHS patients to miss appointments, hospitals to lose records, and cost millions of pounds in paper storage each year.
The new group’s platform is not very inspiring. But its biggest problem is it they won’t be very different from the Conservatives’.
No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.
It is rarely Brexit that people raise on the doorstep. It is concerns about the NHS; their local school; the difficulties faced by social care, or the rise in violent crime.
From transport tech and data-driven healthcare, to creative enterprises and the services sector, we are forging ahead.
With 45 days left, unless workarounds or extra time can be found, uncomfortable decisions may have to be made on which Brexit Bills to prioritise.
Mordaunt, Rudd and Hancock offer three examples in today’s papers of how British politics work now.
“Our long-term plan for the NHS will ensure it is spent well, investing in prevention and better treatments for conditions like cancer and diabetes.”
It’s not hard to find reasons to be frustrated with the Government, but we are still delivering for the British people.
The body blow for the nursing profession in UK was the decision to abolish bursaries for the training of nurses and midwives.