Who will save the NHS?



Lorna Finlayson in the LRB blog, Friday 3rd October.

In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, David Cameron vowed to protect current levels of health spending. He also stressed that ‘you can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy’ – something Labour ‘will never understand’. In other words, the salvation of the NHS depends on a Conservative victory at the next election. That sentence has a strange ring to it.



Full blog post here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/10/03/lorna-finlayson/who-will-save-the-nhs/

 
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