This is now brought into sharp relief by the apparent inability of the coalition partners to agree on Dilnot’s proposals. After the report launch, we heard very positive and supportive responses from both Norman Lamb MP, the deputy prime minister’s political adviser, and the care minister, Lib Dem Paul Burstow. But this was not echoed by either the chancellor of the exchequer or the prime minister.
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NHS Future Forum are to listen to patients, service users and professionals
NHS Future Forum to carry out new work on key health issues
August 18, 2011
The Government has asked the NHS Future Forum to continue a new phase of conversations with patients, service users and professionals following its listening exercise on the proposals to modernise the NHS.
NHS chiefs ‘abuse system by delaying treatment’
29 July 2011 Last updated at 10:46
Patients lives are being used to save money
Insisting patients wait a certain length of time before treatment has been used as a way to save money
NHS managers are abusing the system by making patients wait longer for treatment, the health secretary says.
Andrew Lansley was speaking out after a competition watchdog criticised the way non-emergency operations, such as knee and hip replacements, were being run.
The Co-operation and Competition Panel said some primary care trusts had introduced minimum waiting times to save money and level-down performance.
More delays on health and social care proposals!
Health and social care need equality
Dilnot proposals for social care divide the government, causing more delay to necessary reform, argues Peter Beresford
The proposals by Andrew Dilnot’s commission were described as ‘clever’, but now the coalition partners cannot agree on them. One of the words most often used about the proposals of the Dilnot commission was “clever”. As ever, social care, denuded of finance and political priority, was in search of some smart solution that would gloss over the essential reality of political life – that you get what you pay for.
