As opposition grows and grows, Lansley and Cameron carry on regardless
Jos Bell reports on the latest parliamentary developments on the health and social care bill, as the battle to save the NHS goes on.
Jos Bell
Jos is an author, NHS campaigner and disability spokesperson. She writes for Left Foot Forward on health policy and the NHS, disability rights and welfare reform.
Being aware of the risk, how can the government carry on regardless?
Jos Bell presents her sketch of the NHS Risk Register debate.
The House of Lords ties itself in noble knots over the NHS bill
Jos Bell covers the latest developments in the House of Lords with her NHS bill sketch.
Like arthritis, Lansley’s NHS bill is attacking the very thing it should protect
Jos Bell writes about the Andrew Lansley’s NHS bill’s failure to deal with complex long term conditions like rheumatoid arthritis in a coherent manner.
Losing the plot: How the Lords rubbished the NHS bill – then voted for it anyway
Jos Bell gives an account of the key House Lords debate this week on the health and social care bill.
Pickles leak lays bare consequences of health, welfare and localism bills
Eric Pickles’s leaked warning that government plans to cut welfare payments risk making 40,000 families homeless appears to reflect deep concern in the DCLG.
Davies’s remarks are a much needed wake-up call; discrimination is alive and well
Philip Davies’s disgusting, disgraceful, ignorant, ill-informed remarks about the disabled today have proved to be a much needed wake-up call, writes Jos Bell.
Lord Owen: Government acting with “no authority” over NHS reforms
Jos Bell reports on the latest criticism of health secretary Lansley’s “fatally flawed” healthcare bill, from Lord Owen of.
The truth behind the coalition’s NHS proposals
Jos Bell argues that now is the time for doctors, nurses, unions, patients and Parliamentarians to be counted and oppose Andrew Lansley’s NHS proposals.