All Comment articles – Page 314

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The charges problem boils down to a classic dilemma of democratic politics in a market-orientated society'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'There's no point replacing meddling by national politicians with meddling by local ones.'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The McElephant in the corner, of course, is devolved Scotland, where personal care is free'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    In Oz there is tension over the public sector losing out in budget tussles with private-sector providers

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    Michael White on YouTube politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Only 19 per cent thought the local service had improved and 52 per cent thought it had deteriorated. These results are rubbish.'

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    Michael White on the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lord Hunt thinks trickling out the new IT network is better than the CSA’s doomed big-bang approach

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    Michael White: the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'

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    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.

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    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It is hard for health professionals to admit it, but the Daily Mail is not always wrong'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    We've said it here before, and it won't go away. When trust fades, the effect is like dry rot. It creeps into corners of the infrastructure, including the politics of resource allocation with the NHS, and becomes very hard to drive out. It ceases to be a matter for Tony ...

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

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    Michael White on the pay round

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The tough pay round is a blatant 'clawback' and I don't think doctors can expect much sympathy'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    I spoke to Lord Hunt at the weekend, probably for the first time since he returned to government via the Department for Work and Pensions after resigning with quiet dignity over the Iraq war in 2003.

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    Michael White on Politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Many Scots assume an SNP-led team would have to modify policies in the face of harsh realities

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    Michael White on Politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    I think Hewitt will leave the DoH, not something I would have confidently stated a. month ago