by Sam | 8 Aug 2014 | Politics
The Daily Mail has used a front page spread to report on figures showing that there are 3.2 million awaiting surgery in the UK, a rise of 700,000 compared with 2010. Ministers blame the increase on Britain’s ageing population and rising demand for new treatments, with...
by Sam | 7 Aug 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
Labour’s attack plan for the summer recess has been to complete a volte-face on last year’s holiday season, when leader Ed Miliband’s Shadow Cabinet up and left to go on their holidays and Ed saw the Tories take momentum in to the autumn. This year Shadow Cabinet...
by Sam | 1 Aug 2014 | General Election 2015
So earlier this week Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham gave what is now an all too familiar diatribe against the terrifying reality that NHS are increasingly awarding contracts to provide services to private firms – companies that devlishly sell services for...
by Sam | 29 Jul 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham delivered a speech this morning as part of Labour’s “The Choice” summer series of speeches by members of the Shadow Cabinet. Dubbed as Labour’s “Summer Offensive”, the series aims to lay out the key choices facing voters in 2015....
by Sam | 29 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said that more NHS hospitals and youth services should be taken out of public hands and owned by the people who run them as mutuals, the Guardian reports. The senior Conservative MP said he was increasingly convinced this was...
