Richard Marsh 
Jeremy Hunt’s promising path as Health Secretary
When Jeremy Hunt became Health Secretary last September, the Google Alert I set up against his name would spew forth a regular stream of contemptuous comment on the new appointment.… Continue reading
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Jeremy Hunt’s NHS Mandate will make the service even more cumbersome
Earlier this week my wife called to make a GP appointment for our daughter, who has been experiencing some worrying tummy pains. Middle of next week she was told, earliest.… Continue reading
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Circle’s tough mission for Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Her Majesty’s Comptroller and Auditor General seems to have been nicking ideas from Private Eye. National Audit Office reports these days arrive with a frontispiece of ‘key facts’, reminiscent of… Continue reading
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The EU commissioner who resigned on the grounds he was innocent
I don’t suppose too many Coffee House readers will have noticed, but the EU is currently without a dedicated health commissioner. This is because the holder of that important office, a nondescript… Continue reading
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More evidence of the need for NHS reform
If you want to know why the great Labour-NHS argument about healthcare is wrong, read today’s National Audit Office report on the provision of diabetes care in England. Diabetes is… Continue reading
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Lansley has won, in a way
At two thirty this afternoon, the Deputy Speaker announced to the House of Commons that the Queen had granted Royal Assent to the Health and Social Care Act. It seemed… Continue reading
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So much for taking the politics out of the NHS
So here we are again. At least Lord Justice Leveson had the humanity to give us a couple of weeks off whining celebrities, shifty ex-journalists and declaiming newspaper editors. From… Continue reading
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No-one emerges from the health reform smash-up with any credit
Andrew Lansley should be grateful for small mercies. Rachel Sylvester’s column (£) today may quote a Downing Street source to the effect that ‘Lansley should be taken out and shot’,… Continue reading
20 CommentsLabour start attacking the NHS reforms – but did they need to?
So, the Labour Party has finally woken up to the idea that there might be some mileage in opposing the Government’s health reforms. Throughout much of this year a predictable… Continue reading
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