Despite the BMA calling for a full withdrawal of the Health Bill and a less than convincing address at the NHS Confederation conference two weeks ago, Andrew Lansley was all smiles as he met members of the Air Ambulance crew, and their helicopter, in Cambridge today.
As HSJ’s Simon Lewis pointed out on Twitter earlier - who said Andrew Lansley can’t look relaxed?
This government is fond of declaring it is committed to “three shifts” in health and care policy: hospital to community, analogue to prevention, and treatment to prevention.
NHS England is to have a new chair, albeit the current incumbent Richards Meddings has agreed to stick around until March in line with the government’s tactic of getting the previous administration to ‘own’ a very difficult winter.
The new government will need to resolve three tensions in its mission to fix the broken NHS, writes Dave West.
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