“Britain has a social care crisis,” says the headline above Wes Streeting’s latest piece in the Guardian. “Here’s how Labour plans to fix it.” And how does Labour plan to fix it? Why, by “announcing an independent commission on building a National Care Service” of course. Crossbench peer Louise Casey has agreed to chair the […]| The Policy Sketchbook
We are two months in and, as far as NHS reform goes, the new government is still in a stage of political positioning and information gathering. Lord Darzi’s report, published yesterday, tells us that the NHS is in a bad state. Everything is worse than it was in 2010: waiting lists have soared, cancer outcomes […]| The Policy Sketchbook
Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS, has an article in the Times (also available on the IFS website without a paywall) about how different ideas about fairness are behind some of our political di…| The Policy Sketchbook
“To be clear,” wrote Richard Murray and Siva Anandaciva last year in the Health Service Journal (The Wretchedness of NHS Financial Planning, July 2023 [£]), “this is not fraud.” Richard was then Ch…| The Policy Sketchbook
