Yesterday, Health Secretary Andy Burnham wrote an article for the Guardian aiming to set out the clear blue water between Labour and the Conservatives on the National Health Service. In doing so, he inadvertantly demonstrated quite how vapid Labour’s vision for the NHS really is. It was summed up in one sentence:
For Labour, [...]
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Better a localist NHS than a nationalist one
Reforming the NHS : A Local and Democratic Voice
By Richard S. Grayson
This article was originally published in Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century. We are grateful to Richard for allowing us to reproduce this article. Visit the Methuen website to purchase the latest edition of this book for the discount price of £10.
The democratic deficit in the NHS
Of [...]
There is nothing random about local control of public services
Both Sunder Katwala and Grant Shapps are quite wrong: not only is local variation a price more than worth paying for local control, but it would end the phenomena of postcode lotteries.
“Postcode lottery” is a cliché, and a peculiarly British one. Why is it, for example, that the only references on Google to “zip [...]
