Via the Department for Health, the launch of the Government’s health reforms: Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley today set out the Government’s ambitious plans to reform the NHS during this Parliament and for the long-term. The White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ published today, details how […]
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Biggest revolution in the NHS for 60 years – Telegraph
Doctors are to be given sole responsibility for overseeing front-line care to patients under Coalition plans described as the biggest revolution in the NHS since its foundation 60 years ago. About £80billion will be distributed to family GPs in a move that will see strategic health authorities and primary care […]
Read MoreTeck Khong: NHS reform must tackle the fundamental flaws in its management, its funding, and the maintenance of professional standards
A doctor and Conservative candidate writes on health reform and it’s very much to the point of our local experience: A renewal of the NHS must not be piecemeal or deal with the symptoms. It must tackle the fundamental flaws – in its management, its funding, and the maintenance of […]
Read MoreMaternity at Wycombe Hospital
First, we found Wycombe’s midwife-led maternity unit was at risk of temporary closure: Wycombe Hospital unit could close for months. I called for radical reform: Wycombe MP calls for radical health care shake-up. Finally, the editor kindly supported this view: MP’s plan can prevent vanishing maternity. Having met Andrew Lansley MP, the Health […]
Read MoreA hectic start to the week
Yesterday, I began getting to know Wycombe’s police team before speaking to Breathe Easy Buckinghamshire on the nature of society and social cooperation, from a Big Society and Cobden Centre perspective. I caught up with the constituency team before heading into London. I submitted an HS2 question to the Government, caught up with correspondence and finished the […]
Read More2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months: A proposal for sound money » The Cobden Centre
Over at The Cobden Centre, my colleague Dr Anthony J Evans sets out a summary of his proposal for banking reform, derived from work by Kevin Dowd and Richard Salsman. He first sets out the problems of the current situation in this graphic: He goes on to explain how to […]
Read MoreUS money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus – Telegraph
Via The Telegraph. The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history. But this begs the question, “Why is the money supply dependent […]
Read MoreThe Emperor’s New Clothes
Over at The Cobden Centre, entrepreneur and Austrian-school economist Toby Baxendale stands courageously on the shoulders of great men to explain how we can begin to reconstruct our broken monetary regime. Baxendale explains that we can end the financial crisis, pay off the national debt and give a 28.5% income […]
Read More‘A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops’ – Henry Adams
NB: The author is Tim Hewish, who I am glad to welcome as a local contributor. — Steve Buckinghamshire is blessed with having Grammar schools and is complimented by a large number of successful State schools; however not all parts of the country are so privileged. I was fortunate enough […]
Read MoreSocial policy in the noughties
In areas such as welfare reform, criminal justice and the voluntary sector, this government has got it badly wrong time and again As the millennium dawned, record economic growth and stability gave Labour an unparalleled platform for social reform. Its intentions were commendable. Who could oppose “cutting the bills of […]
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