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Flagellation can be fun!

Lord Soley 21/03/2012 – 1:04 pm

My good friend Baroness Murphy observes that just because you are mad it doesn't mean you are necessarily wrong! (See her post below) My evidence for the Health and Social Care Bill being a  mad policy choice is that everyone including the Government will suffer for bringing in a Bill that was quite unnescessary. For those in doubt about the quality of the NHS which is now seen around the wor […]

Written at 1:04 pm on 21/03/2012, by Lord Soley

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Health and Social Care Bill

Lord Soley 20/03/2012 – 10:48 am

This Bill finally completed its weary journey through the House of Lords yesterday. I am still trying to work out whether the Government was mad or bad in pushing it through. It is bad because it will increase bureaucracy and costs without improving front line services. It is mad because the Government has alienated the very people it wanted to please - the NHS workers and the public. There ar […]

Written at 10:48 am on 20/03/2012, by Lord Soley

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Health and Social Care Bill

Lord Norton 04/10/2011 – 3:08 pm

The Constitution Committee has published a report on the Health and Social Care Bill.  The remit of the committee is confined to the constitutional implications of the Bill and we are concerned that the Bill, in its current form, risks diluting the Government's constitutional responsibilities with regard to the NHS.  You can read the report here.

Written at 3:08 pm on 04/10/2011, by Lord Norton

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Dreaming of the Health Bill

Baroness Thornton 24/03/2011 – 11:27 am

If it already feels like total immersion in the Health and Social Care Bill I cannot imagine what it will be like when we actually get to consider the blessed thing on the floor of the House. The whole world seems to feel the need to send briefing about the Bill Yesterday for example, I met health inequalities advisors who are about to lose their jobs as the Department of Health closes the […]

Written at 11:27 am on 24/03/2011, by Baroness Thornton


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Diabetes Screening

Lord Harrison of Chester 16/03/2010 – 5:35 pm

I suffer from diabetes so I have followed medical progress and treatment opportunities closely. There is always a fear of blindness with this condition so it is really encouraging to find the Government is introducing retinopathy screening to all potentially vulnerable groups nationwide whose eyesight is threatened. But we have to find new ways of getting this information to diabetes sufferers eve […]

Written at 5:35 pm on 16/03/2010, by Lord Harrison of Chester


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