All Labour policy articles – Page 27
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SPENDING UNDER LABOUR
DATA BREIFING: When New Labour took office it was committed to keeping to the previous Conservative government's public spending plans. But surely this would have compromised its pledges on the future of the NHS? John Appleby reports
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Socialist Alliance 'Labour is no longer following Bevan's agenda'
East End GP Dr Kambiz Boomla is standing against health secretary Alan Milburn's parliamentary private secretary, Jim Fitzpatrick, in Poplar and Canning Town, where the Labour majority is 18,915.
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Labour 'People have the wrong end of the stick about NHS managers'
Among Labour's hopefuls is Reg Race, a management consultant in the health service who has worked in 102 trusts and health authorities.
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Labour criticised over attitude to public health
A supposedly key public health report published last week should have been released 18 months ago and will 'not set the heathers alight', a health expert claims.
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Labour under pressure to concede on care bill
The government has been forced to make concessions as it struggles to push its Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament before calling a general election.
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Doctors still 'call the shots'despite Labour rhetoric on patient focus
Despite rhetoric about developing a patient-focused and primary careled NHS, little has changed under New Labour from the typical patient's point of view, according to a report from the King's Fund.
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Labour's deal: an at-a-glance guide to the Scottish solution
Susan Deacon's original proposals:
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New inquiry to probe 'Labour PCT cronies'
The commissioner for public appointments is to investigate primary care trust board appointments, following renewed allegations that Labour is filling boards with its cronies.
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Labouring under delusions
In the 1940s health minister Aneurin Bevan retained private practice and NHS pay beds, which represented everything he opposed, as the price of establishing the NHS.But when Barbara Castle became social services secretary in 1974, she launched an all-out assault on private practice, the consultant contract, NHS pay beds and ...