Is this Conservatism?
Matthew Parris's experiment with 30 marginal Tories reveals the extent to which Conservatives are willing to compromise for votes - but do they need to?
- 30 March 2013
THIS is the NHS...
If this notice is any indication of how the NHS is run (and it is), then is it any wonder the financial black hole of Britain is in such a dire state?
- 28 March 2013
NHS to employ 1 in 8 Brits by 2060, account for 50 percent of government spending
Britain's National Health Service could end up devouring 50 percent of UK government spending by 2060, says a new report
- 1 February 2013
NHS nurse suspended after giving patient Lucozade instead of glucose drip
An NHS nurse has been suspended after a catalogue of errors including being unfamiliar with resuscitation equipment and failing to register patients
- 3 January 2013
The left's bully tactics and the shifting of goalposts
The Left's tactics over Starbucks and the NHS show that it is not committed to economic recovery - and the right is failing too
- 11 December 2012
New Statesman, Independent and UK Statistic Authority Chairman wrong on NHS 'cuts'
It'll come as no surprise as to why ideologically driven outlets are spinning incorrectly on NHS cuts - here's the real skinny
- 10 December 2012
Boris zoinks off the Geiger counter of popularity, sure – but not because he’s a pragmatist
Being naturally skeptical of the state is a crucial conservative tradition that must be upheld
- 30 July 2012
Another reason to scrap the NHS as UK doctors strike against £53,000 ($82,000) pension deal
Producer oriented health systems always put interests of patients second, but this one takes the biscuit
- 31 May 2012
The New Prohibition
David Cameron is so very wrong on the minimum pricing for alcohol units. It’s illiberal; it’s un-conservative and will cause a ‘moonshine culture’ in Britain
- 29 December 2011
Latest horrific report on NHS standards must give UK pause for thought about its socialist medical system
An independent health watchdog has found that more than half of NHS hospitals fail to meet optimum needs in care of the elderly: A fifth are so bad they’re breaking the law
- 13 October 2011
Market reforms to the NHS symbolise the Conservative Party I want to be remembered serving
Nick de Bois MP says competition is the core of the Health and Social Care Bill and if we miss this opportunity for reform we won’t get another for a generation.
- 6 June 2011
Britain’s infantile debate on its disastrous National Health Service
Report: elderly patients going hungry, call bells going unanswered, people forced to defecate next to their beds, nurses forgetting to distribute water.
- 26 May 2011
PMQs: David Cameron will never win by defending a nationalised health system the rest of the world rejects
The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead (pictured) is staffed by great people. But the luvvies round the corner built an NHS that doesn't work.
- 11 May 2011
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