Posts Tagged lansley
Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 22/12/2010
Trawling through the 167 pages of the Coalition Government’s response to the consultation on the NHS White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, one cannot help but agree with Phil Collins’ recent comment piece in The Times… just why is the Secretary of State making NHS reform so hard for himself?
Lansley’s plans could set the NHS back by up to 3 years
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 10/07/2010
Moves to transfer commissioning responsibility to GPs could cost the NHS its £20 billion efficiency savings target, and worse
The coalition government’s White Paper on the NHS is due to be published next week. It is widely expected to outline plans to hand control of as much as £80 billion of resources in the NHS from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to consortia of GPs.
Analysis released today by Civitas suggests such moves are likely to:
- Lead to at least a one year dip in performance in the NHS in absolute terms.
- Set the NHS back at least three years relative to what could be achieved without any structural change.
Read the full report and press release, here and here. For ideas for what the government should be doing, return to the blog tomorrow. Also, have a listen to R4 World Tonight (10 mins 55 secs in).
Tories = Labour
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 28/02/2008
The Times today reveals the Conservatives are equally, if not more, committed to throwing yet more money at the NHS than Labour. The Shadow Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley has boldly so he thinks, and completely foolhardily so many of the public will think, pledged to increase spending on it by £28 billion per year to around 11 per cent of GDP.