Posts Tagged labour
Labour’s record on the NHS
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 08/04/2010
Over the past, and upcoming weeks, Civitas is releasing a series of briefings on key social policy issues intended as useful resources for the public. Here’s the one on the NHS. Essentially, it provides key statistics and brief, impartial, analysis (3 pages) of where the NHS is now; what Labour have achieved over the past decade; and what the Conservatives are proposing. See what you think.
Where, oh, where are the reforms going?
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 27/09/2007
The ambiguous messages coming out of the government on the NHS have the potential to be highly damaging. Happily munching my cereal yesterday morning, the Today programme introduced a discussion with the Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, and I confess my initial reaction was, oh no, ‘here we go again’. But, while there was the compulsory dose of ministerial squirming, I actually came away reasonably optimistic that the reforms in the NHS weren’t going to be rolled back after all. Even the reverse?!