First, a left-wing health event. Second, immensely clever students at my old school. Third, a hustings about motorbikes, chaired by Lembit Opik.
Exercise is the miracle cure we’ve been waiting for. We just need to help more people do it.
“We’re able to fund the NHS’ own plan in full because we have a strong economy… that is linked to the difficult and long-term decisions that we’ve taken elsewhere.”
The inconvenient truth is this: the UK has significantly worse outcomes than many other advanced countries which deliver universal access to healthcare.
Through saving our economy and protecting the public finances the Conservatives have ensured increased funding and have saved the NHS as we know it today.
My work with whistleblowers in this Parliament, especially those who work in the NHS, has helped to taught me that integrity is more important than institutions.
It was the wartime Minister for Health, the Conservative Party’s Sir Henry Willink, who actually published the 1944 White Paper in response titled ‘A National Health Service’.
An arbitrary limit on profits dismays both supporters and opponents of private sector involvement in the NHS .
Capped care home fees. Better help for rape victims. 15 hours free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds. Reduced number of pension qualifying years for women. And more.
Doctors need a moratorium on change to let them catch their breath. But with votes to win, the urge to make unrealisable promises is too great to resist.
It cannot be right that there are no options in situations in which an ambulance and paramedic team is available to attend the scene of a serious accident.
Public spending on health has risen by 344 per cent over the past 30 years. Is it time to look for money from elsewhere?
“There will be no privatisation, no talk of health insurance – at all – within our health insurance policy. Not a whiff.”
They and other similar groups are a minor curiosity in this election, but they are a sign of a culture to the left of Labour in parts of our healthcare system.