Cancer fund is compassionate, but is it fair?
The £50 million cancer drug fund announced this week is morally sound. But from a government whose landmark NHS reform is called ‘Equity and Excellence’, its fairness is questionable. I’m not...
View ArticleForget ‘milkgate’: there’s a bigger issue here
When Public Health Minister Anne Milton wrote, privately, to her Scottish equivalent saying the government planned to scrap free milk for nursery school children, she could not have predicted the froth...
View ArticleGPs’ concerns led to government action in 7 days. So what next?
The turnaround was astoundingly quick: from news story to government intervention in just one week. Health secretary Andrew Lansley’s decision to order PCTs not to blanket ban GP diagnostic scans came...
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