Category Archives: Baroness Murphy

Board meetings in public make for greater transparency?

Baroness Murphy 14/12/2011 – 11:47 am

We had a brief discussion during the Health and Social Care Bill committee last night about whether the new healthcare economic regulator, Monitor, will meet in public. It will apparently. I have always supported having meetings in public and chosen to have them in public whenever there was a choice. But I have realised over the years that public meetings tend only to make decisions that have been […]

Written at 11:47 am on 14/12/2011, by Baroness Murphy

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Brussels sprouts an idea

Baroness Murphy 10/12/2011 – 11:26 am

Like many British, I am deeply ambivalent about the long term ‘European Project.’ My difficulty is that I see the value, indeed the imperative, of Britain being part of a United Europe in perhaps 30, 40, 50 years. I believe a politically united Europe is the only way our distinct culture will survive and thrive economically to counterbalance the growth of the great Asian powers, the resurgence […]

Written at 11:26 am on 10/12/2011, by Baroness Murphy

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The Strike

Baroness Murphy 30/11/2011 – 12:49 pm

I just heard the PM say that 40% of schools are open in spite of the strike and there is a video clip on BBC news of passport control moving at a pace at Heathrow I haven't seen it for years. No doubt tomorrow we'll get a better picture but possibly the strike will not be as damaging as feared. I am in receipt of one of those generous NHS doctors pensions which makes me pause before criticising to […]

Written at 12:49 pm on 30/11/2011, by Baroness Murphy

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Is this the best way to improve a bill

Baroness Murphy 23/11/2011 – 9:50 am

  We are about half way through the committee stages of the Health and Social Care Bill; yesterday afternoon and evening we ploughed through the 7th day of amendments, missing our target as usual by several groups of amendments because so many people want to speak. I spoke in the debate on amendment 103, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/111122-0002.htm#111122 […]

Written at 9:50 am on 23/11/2011, by Baroness Murphy

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Getting cultural change into a bill

Baroness Murphy 16/11/2011 – 2:47 pm

I'm writing this in the half hour break we've been given for lunch on the 5th day of committee on the Health and Social Care Bill. We've been discussing the role of GP Clinical Commissioning groups and then Public Health. There is broad unaniminity around the House about the objectives and very little disagreement about the aims of the policy but significant differences about the degree of latitu […]

Written at 2:47 pm on 16/11/2011, by Baroness Murphy

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