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.
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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.
Life in the Lords logjam may be death for the health bill
Alex Hern gives a latest update on where the NHS bill stands in the House of Lords, and writes about the extent of the logjam in the upper house.
NHS assessment of Lansley’s plan’s risk makes for sober reading
Alex Hern details the concerning information to be found in NHS London’s assessment of the risk imposed by the government’s top-down reorganisation of the NHS.
Sign my petition to drop Lansley’s monster
Dr. Kailash Chand calls for the NHS bill to be dropped, and introduces his petition which he hopes you will sign to help him
How Tories wrecked the NHS (but learnt to love targets (too late))
Alex Hern shows quite how long scrapping waiting lists has been a Tory policy, and quite how quickly they scrapped it.
How the Tories’ fake co-op friends are biting a chunk out of the NHS
Pete Jefferys explains why Circle Healthcare is not a mutual, and shouldn’t be described as such. It is out to make a profit for its owners.
Cancer is not the only story of improving outcomes under a Labour NHS
Trevor Cheeseman shows how the history of a Labour NHS was, far from the Conservative rhetoric, one of improving outcomes across the board.
The best preventative medicine in the world can’t undo the damage of Osborne’s austerity
Dr Tristan Learoyd explains why the coalition’s focus on preventative medicine is a smokescreen for cuts, and is doomed to inefficacy, because of the cuts.
Safe in their hands? Tory peers, private health and the threat to our NHS
Tory peers with links to the private healthcare industry, peers who normally never vote, are helping push through Andrew Lansley’s health and social care bill.