Public sector outsourcing is a mess – and it’s the taxpayer picking up the tab
From a4e to the care homes scandal, the outsourced sector is simply out of control with bonuses for poor performance.
NHS
ConHome: Neuter the Health Bill
Daniel Elton reports on the latest high-profile defection to the campaign to save the NHS: Tim Montgomerie and ConservativeHome
The Financial Times comes out against the NHS bill
Alex Hern reports on the calls from the Financial Times to drop the NHS bill. Although they are attacking from the right, this will pile yet more pressure on the government.
Don’t believe the spin – the health reforms are Cameron’s just as much as Lansley’s
Despite trying to pin the health reforms on Andrew Lansley, David Cameron says he helped design them, he has backed them in public and is ultimately responsible.
GP in Cameron’s constituency: “Nobody supports the NHS changes”
A doctor in David Cameron’s Witney constituency has said “things are going to fail, hospitals will close” as a result of the health and social care bill.
The five reasons why the NHS bill is still being opposed
Alex Hern presents the five worst things still in the coalition government’s anti-NHS health and social care bill.
We can’t dodge the needed change to social care any longer
Jessica Studdert argues that all the evidence shows we need to make some major changes to how we fund and operate social care, and they need to be done soon.
Santorum: The candidate the right loves because he hates gay people
Rick Santorum thinks that there’s no difference between homosexuality and incest. Lovely.
Top videos of 2011: #1: Grey-haired manky codger
Left Foot Forward’s number one video of 2011 is… The Andrew Lansley Rap by MC Nxtgen and Rob Gee.
Safe in their hands? Lansley, Cameron and the NHS in 2012
You know someone’s true feelings when they highlight failings whenever they can, yet play down any success – so it is with the coalition and the NHS in 2012.