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8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Paul Abbott: The graph... · 0 replies · +1 points
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Paul Abbott: The graph... · 0 replies · +1 points
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Paul Abbott: The graph... · 0 replies · +1 points
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Paul Abbott: The graph... · 0 replies · +1 points
And having a dermatologist in on Saturday doesn't reduce the demand for locum A&E doctors,that's caused by a shortage of A&E doctors.
And waiting lists arent reduced by increasing costs and spreading procedures over 7 days
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Paul Abbott: The graph... · 5 replies · +1 points
Hunt's rhetoric on 7 day NHS confuses routine ops and emergency care, deliberately probably.
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Paul Abbott: The graph... · 0 replies · +1 points
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Paul Abbott: The graph... · 0 replies · +1 points
The question is how many of those lives can be saved by moving resources to weekends and in what fields.
I don't think the author has really understood any of the data or arguments.
9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Charlotte Leslie MP: I... · 0 replies · +1 points
And as for rocketing costs well setting up a PR stunt like the Cancer Drugs Fund then letting it overrun it's budget is precisely the wrong way of going about things.
9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Lord Ashcroft: The peo... · 0 replies · +1 points
How he let Lansley's craziness destroy his personal pledges is beyond belief, but he only has himself to blame.
9 years ago @ Conservative Home - The NHS policies of th... · 1 reply · +1 points
He gets very faux angry when people claim he can't be trusted
“So I make this commitment to the NHS and all who work in it.
“No more pointless reorganisations.”
David Cameron, speech to Conservative Party conference, 4 October 2006
“The NHS needs no more pointless organisational upheaval. It needs no more top-down
reorganisations.”
Andrew Lansley, Conservative Party press release, 11 July 2007
"But first I want to tell you what we're not going to do.
"There will be no more of those pointless re-organisations that aim for change but instead bring
chaos."
David Cameron, speech to the Royal College of Nursing, 11 May 2009
“With the Conservatives there will be no more of the tiresome, meddlesome, top-down re-structures
that have dominated the last decade of the NHS.”
David Cameron, speech at the Royal College of Pathologists, 2 November 2009
"We will stop the top-down reorganisations of the NHS that have got in the way of patient care."
Coalition Agreement, 20 May 2010, p. 24