Archive for andrew lansley
“Prime Minister David Cameron’s Liberal Democrat deputy has quietly emerged as the more successful Whitehall operator”
So writes Paul Goodman in the Daily Telegraph: That Clegg persuaded his party to cohabit with the Conservatives is a tribute not only to his powers of persistence and his colleagues’ appetite for office, but also to the Coalition Agreement itself. Its importance can be over-stated. The Government has done things that aren’t in it, [...]
Stinging rebuke for Great Ormond Street’s management in The Lancet
Writing in the latest edition of The Lancet, one of the world’s most respected medical journals, its editor Richard Horton says, If GOSH’s [Great Ormond Street Hospital's] management team had been in Wigan they would almost certainly have departed by now. Perhaps GOSH is just too important to be seen to fail. Even when a [...]
It’s a busy Saturday for the spinners
With the new version of the government’s health plans due out on Monday or Tuesday, expect tomorrow’s papers to be full of pre-briefing from the different camps – the pro-Lansley Tories, the rest of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. The first of that trio are likely to have by far the toughest, verging on [...]
NHS reforms will be altered significantly and in a Lib Dem direction – Paul Burstow
The NHS Bill will be substantially changed – that was the message from Liberal Democrat MP and Health Minister Paul Burstow at Lewisham Liberal Democrats on Friday night. It won’t just be changed, he said, it will be changed in a distinctively Liberal Democrat direction. At the heart of the likely changes is the role [...]
First Conservative MP to back Yes vote in AV referendum?
It looks as if Warrington MP David Mowat could be the first Conservative MP so far to back the alternative vote in May’s referendum. The Liverpool Daily Post reports: A Warrington MP is ready to defy David Cameron by voting to scrap the first-past-the- post voting system – potentially making him the only Conservative to [...]
Labour paid private health firms £3 for every £2 of London healthcare they provided
Liberal Democrat MP (and former Haringey councillor) Stephen Gilbert has been doing some good digging into the way Labour wasted money with over-generous and badly worded contracts between the health service and private health providers. The shocking figures for London are that although private firms were paid £63.4 million they only provided £41.5 million worth [...]
Will money for cancer drugs be available for alternative medicine asks astrology MP
Bosworth Conservative MP David Tredinnick, the man who claimed for astrology software and training on expenses, has been asking in Parliament about switching funds from cancer drugs to alternative medicine: David Tredinnick: The cancer drugs fund is available only for pharmaceutical drugs, but can it be used for wider support services, such as healers, aromatherapists, [...]
The thing David Cameron wants you to forget when watching his election broadcast
Today’s election broadcast from the Conservatives simply features David Cameron talking to camera about MPs and their expense claims. The message is meant to be about him facing up to the problems and talking frankly about them.
But listen to his language:
I want to start by saying sorry … sorry for the actions of some Conservative [...]
