Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Sir David Varney weighs in on risks of the Health Bill reforms
The day is getting livelier already. There is a heavy police presence on
Whitehall, including riot police. I'm
Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Audit Commission times its punches - Barking, Havering and Redbridge report released
I suppose if you were about to abolish me, I might unleash a sense of mischief
in my timing. The
Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Beginnings, endings and gravity talking
Today it begins.
Today the NHS faces a fascinatingly undeveloped, electorally-unpromised and
fundamental overhaul.
Today we start the legislative move
Editor’s blog Tuesday 18 January 2011: Damning PFI and commissioning reports out
Politicians can do really good things, we should remember.
And one of the glories of a well-functioning Parliamentary select committee
Editor’s blog Monday 17 January 2011: PM David Cameron's RSA speech on public services, reviewed
The full text of PM David Cameron's RSA speech on public services can be found
here
[http://www.
Editor’s blog Monday 17 January 2011: What is the question that SOS Lansley’s NHS reforms are trying to answer?
A major media offensive is under way to launch NHS Week (as the Downing Street
'media grid' has
Editor's blog Friday 14 January 2011: 'Liberating the NHS' impact assessment distincly un-liberated
The Guardian's Denis Campbell has the story that shadow health secretary John
Healey's effort to obtain
Editor's blog Thursday 13 January 2011: The battalions gear up for uncivil war
Of late, two 20th-century political figures have been much-quoted in regard to
NHS reform.
Both men - Stalin and Mao
Editor's blog Wednesday 12 January 2011: Health and NHS lines from today's PMQs and Monday's urgent question on flu
The NHS lines, Prime Minister’s Questions 12.1.11
Ed Miliband, Leader Of The Opposition: “His health minister (Paul
Guest editorial Tuesday 11 January 2011: Just like deja vu all over again?
Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association wonders at a fragmented future
for the NHS
When the previous Tory government
