Sajid Javid wants people to pay £66 for A&E visits and £20 per GP visit
‘Just a former health secretary openly calling for £20 charges per GP visit & £66 per trip to A&E.’
NHS reform
Health unions call for game-changing pay rise to halt NHS staff exodus
The 14 unions – representing 1.2 million health staff in England – are calling on ministers to act urgently with a significant wage boost.
Prof Prem Sikka: The Health and Care Bill means entire Hospitals can be handed over to corporations
‘Over the years, the Conservative and New Labour governments have chipped away at the NHS by privatising some of its services, such as physiotherapy and blood-testing’.
The new Health and Care Bill is a charter for corruption
‘This new Bill that will be voted on in parliament this week should really be called the NHS Corporate Takeover Bill.’
Diane Abbott MP: There’s a long running campaign to privatise the NHS. We must fight back.
‘The NHS winter crisis has its roots in government policy.’
Wales will fight the Tory dismantling of the NHS
Lesley Griffiths explains the Welsh Labour line on the NHS, and how it plans to fight the increasing marketisation at the core of Tory plans for the service
Jones pledges to listen to NHS staff as Cameron leaves them out in the cold
Ed Jacobs looks at Welsh FM Jones’ attack on Cameron’s NHS changes
Cameron’s speech churns out the old Tory myths
Cameron’s speech turned out to be a trotting out of well-worn Tory tropes on spending, deregulation, family values, NHS reform, disability benefit reform and so much else. But there’s a lot of spin obscuring the truth.
Of sacred cows and wise turkeys
David Cameron and Nick Clegg certainly aren’t the first to forget the lessons of history, but in the unravelling of their plans is laughably predictable.
Issues of great concern remain for Lib Dems on NHS reform
Andrew Lansley’s health reforms will be significantly amended, in response to the misgivings expressed by healthcare professionals and many Liberal Democrats.