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Health and Social Care - Parliamentary Round Up - April 2012 | 28/03/12

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Column by Will Davies which appeared in the April edition of the English Community Care Association (ECCA) member's newsletter....Read More

The beginning of the end for the Health & Social Care Bill? | 10/02/12

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Later this year my younger brother will complete his degree in medicine. At the same time, in a wonderful moment of symmetry, our father will retire from the NHS after 35 years. ...Read More

Private v. Public in the NHS – isn’t it time the debate grew up? | 28/12/11

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Yesterday’s reports that a recently proposed amendment to the Health & Social Care Bill could see National Health Service foundation hospitals allowed to raise nearly half of their funding through private work have generated predictably stormy responses....Read More

Health and Social Care - Parliamentary Round Up - December 2011 | 28/11/11

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Column by Rukayah Sarumi which appeared in the December edition of the English Community Care Association (ECCA) member's newsletter....Read More

Did Cameron achieve what he wanted at the Conservative Party Conference? | 19/10/11

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Despite the drama of Liam Fox’s resignation, which will soon be a forgotten story (a week is a long time in politics), I think it is fair to say that David Cameron and his Team will be happy with the outcome from the Party Conference season. ...Read More

Will the Coalition Stay the Course – I am for the first time not so sure | 27/04/11

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I am increasingly revisiting my, hitherto cast iron, certainty on whether the Coalition will make it until the end of this Parliament....Read More

The AV campaigns: Politicking at its worst | 21/04/11

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Despite promises to “fix our broken political system” in the wake of the expenses scandal, the conduct of the respective AV campaigns has shown that for all the fine words, little progress has been made....Read More