Health and Social Care Bill
Healey: “Cameron is a PR man looking for a PR answer”
Shadow health secretary John Healey criticised the prime minister today over the government's response to its own NHS plans, reports Left Foot Forward's Shamik Das.
Health bill’s competition clauses are tantamount to privatisation
Should full-blown competition be introduced into the NHS we may see consequences that are tantamount to privatisation is all but name, writes Prateek Buch.
Clegg may be soft-pedaling on tackling competition in NHS bill
Nick Clegg has not demanded the role of competition in Lansley's health bill to be changed, only the appearence that there is a "dogmatic obsession with it".
Lansley in denial over level of opposition to reforms
Dominic Browne reports on the Royal College of Nursing's vote of no confidence in health secretary Andrew Lansley and his denial over the level of professional opposition to his bill.
Govt. must go beyond cosmetic changes to health bill warn Lib Dem activists
It’s at this time that the Liberal Democrat grassroots pressure for changes must be heard the loudest, to prevent the government from making cosmetic or wrong-headed amendments to the NHS legislation and try to pass them off as significant improvements to the policy.
It’s Europe that will kill the Tory NHS reforms
Andrew Georgiou looks at the Tory NHS and welfare reforms and whether they will open up the service to European Union competition law.