RSS FeedThe politics of the plebiscite | 29/01/13
A few weeks ago I posted a series of predictions for the next two and a half years in politics. ...Read More
PLMR’s Review of 2012 | 28/12/12
It's that time of year again when everyone starts thinking about the past 12 months and what stories and events sum up the year that was 2012. So delve inside to find out what the PLMR team have chosen as their picks of the year....Read More
Musical Chairs: What ‘reshuffle season’ could hold | 03/09/12
As Parliament returns from its month and a half long recess, many of the conversations on the terrace or in the lobbies will be on an impending reshuffle. ...Read More
Fairer Care Funding: Will the ‘cap’ fit? | 17/08/12
We heard this week that David Cameron and Nick Clegg have pledged their support for Economist Andrew Dilnot’s Government-commissioned report, in a bid to ‘revolutionise’ social care for the elderly....Read More
Health and Social Care - Parliamentary Round Up - April 2012 | 28/03/12
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
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
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
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
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
I am increasingly revisiting my, hitherto cast iron, certainty on whether the Coalition will make it until the end of this Parliament....Read More
