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What, in your view, is the Conservative Party for? Winning power. It's pretty flexible as to the way in which it goes about it, and reinvents itself all the time. It usually stands for a mixed economy with overt support for private enterprise, as long as that support doesn't get too much in the way...

I suggest you read a little further. You might also want to read the reports issued by the likes of the Kings Fund . Amending the 2012 Act: can it be done? Proposals for legislative reform were put forward at the end of last year by NHS England . They were kicked out by the government. Anyone who a...

Health and Social Care Act 2012 That was rearranging the deckchairs. It didn't invent an iceberg. Here's the relevant quote. It's in section 1, so I didn't have to read very far. I've put the relevant bits in bold. “1Secretary of State’s duty to promote comprehensive health service (1)The Secretary...

Anyone who asserts that the Conservatives want to fundamentally change the basis of the NHS or restrict what it does really ought to provide some evidence rather than vague assertions. Vague assertions that don't bear any relation to reality are what is wrong with politics, and get found out eventua...

I think organisations fare better when their leaders are actually motivated by the goals of the organisation, rather than needing to be artificially motivated by secondary means such as money. That is straight out of the management training manual. Every time I've ever recruited for a job I've look...

That isn't current orthodoxy, actually. A great deal of emphasis is placed in management theory and practice on alignment between managers and organisational objectives. It can lead to absurdities like some stock option awards, which can lead to short termism, but in general it helps. There's a big ...

How is it controlled though? At the start of this, Germany was said to be well stocked with ventilators and ICU beds. This was seen to be vindicating a decision to be well prepared, that had been criticised as over-prepared. Was this something that their insurance providers had done, or are the dec...

OK - I think we're saying the same thing in different terms. A rather small subset of what the NHS currently provides would be available equally to all. Everything else would be differentially available depending on one's ability and willingness to pay. I don't have a direct hookup into what passes...

Not everyone is a superfan of the insurance industry. Right now they are using small print to worm out of paying out to small businesses who have shelled out thousands in premiums. As ever. Placeholder for shrugging shoulders yellow facey thing I'm not entirely sure what that non sequitur has to do...

Yes, "some kind of...", but the question is, what kind of? The NHS of Tory MPs' dreams would presumably not be equally available to all, for free, at the point of delivery. Not true. The NHS of Tory MPs' dreams - or at least of their dreams a few months ago - would be free at point of delivery and ...

The man is (a) available now, (b) experienced at leading complex organisations with lots of public and volunteer engagement and (c) has real experience of lobbying and political engagement. All are far more important than whether he's a bike rider or a member of the organisation. I'm both, and an ex...

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4 years ago

Yes, this slide into an era of populism we are witnessing is awful. Leaders who don't lead but just perform for their audience.

I will just leave this hanging there with the reminder that some of us have been saying it for a while.

Johnson is an advocate for introducing insurance based healthcare. He has consistently voted for measures that undermine the NHS. He has consistently voted against measures to improve NHS pay. In other words he's a Tory MP. But even the Tories at their most rabid treat some kind of National Health ...

If he did say he was lucky (I want to slap him, so I don't watch the press conferences and rely on the Grauniad's live blog) it's more likely he meant it's lucky that he lived somewhere he could get that treatment. He's a complete twat, but his regard for the NHS does seem to be a genuine and consis...

Regulator wrote: ↑

4 years ago

We're not the only ones to have had centenarians survive Covid19 - so it does make you wonder if there is a Spanish 'Flu link somehow.

There is an 85% survival rate on average for over 85s! No notional link to antibodies from a completely different virus 102 years ago needed.