Did the NHS slow Blair’s Atlantic drift?

John Carvel: There was a palpable sense of relief in the NHS when the name of its new chief executive was announced last week. Many may not have known much about David Nicholson, the man assigned to run the health service in London, until the call came for him to take over England as a whole.

Experts criticise NHS reform

Senior healthcare experts today criticised government NHS reforms as incoherent and called for a national review of the way the health service is governed and managed. But in a series of articles in the British Medical Journal, they rejected a … Continue reading →

Dancing with dogma

Leader: Tony Blair was at it again yesterday - setting out the case for opening up public services to private providers, in one of a series of grand, setpiece speeches that he is said to have penned himself.