Posts for July 10, 2020
God, what is this wintry July we’re having?
The Latest Tory Plan to Attack the NHS
This is terrifying:
The prime minister has set up a taskforce to devise plans for how ministers can regain much of the direct control over the NHS they lost in 2012 under a controversial shake-up masterminded by Andrew Lansley, the then coalition government health secretary.
The Prime Minister’s Health and Social Care Taskforce – made up of senior civil servants and advisers from Downing Street, the Treasury and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) – is drawing up proposals that would restrict NHS England’s operational independence and the freedom Stevens has to run the service.
Looks like Johnson’s life-saving hospital stay has been soon forgotten.