May and husband stand to gain hugely from #DementiaTax #GE17
As a commenter on the excellent Vox Political site observed yesterday, the Tories ‘dementia tax’ proposals to force elderly people to pay for all their care from the value of […]
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#DementiaTax – what happens when SURVIVING spouse needs care too? #GE17
In spite of the uproar – and the migration of elderly voters to Labour – caused by the Tories’ plans to make older people pay even for […]
We paid #Hunt at least £101k while he went AWOL to sell business for £35m #HuntMustGo
2016 was a landmark year for the NHS in all the wrong ways. Wrong: Accident & emergency (A&E) waits were worse in every month than the year before – so much worse […]
NHS spending PUBLIC money training PRIVATE providers to profit from it
I’ve come across a brilliant but enraging article on another blog on the subject of NHS privatisation. Normally I’d ‘reblog’ it, but it’s not hosted on WordPress, so I don’t […]
Prof Jarman: REALLY an ‘independent’ expert on NHS mortality stats?
On the day of the publication last week of Sir Bruce Keogh’s report (heavily and utterly misleadingly trailed by right-wing media and commentators) into 14 NHS Trusts, Health Secretary Jeremy […]
Commercialising grief? Julie Bailey…Limited
According to newspaper reports, Julie Bailey, founder of the so-called patients’ campaign group Cure the NHS (Cure), has left Stafford – supposedly ‘driven out’ by a ‘hate campaign’ orchestrated by the […]
2 more hospitals considering private ownership
Reblogged from CCGWatch: The SKWAWKBOX blog last month covered the betrayal of the country by LibDem peers who voted through the government’s ‘section 75‘ measures designed to parcel up the NHS for […]
If you let the fox into the chicken coop: profit & ‘efficiency’ in the NHS
A couple of news stories have caught my eye over the past few days, because they’ve confirmed developments in the NHS that I’ve predicted in this blog as well as […]
Resilient parasites? Privateers to ‘exploit’ NHS ‘brand’ abroad
I have to confess a grudging admiration for the NHS privateers this morning. Not in a positive way, of course. More like the kind of admiration you feel for the […]
The lie of ‘unaffordability’: the foundations of the welfare state and the REAL ‘structural’ problems
On Newsnight last Wednesday, a very sharp old lady nailed Conservative minister David Willetts during a discussion on pension reforms by challenging the idea that we can’t afford to maintain […]