foundation trusts Articles

Foundation trusts fail to fulfil their original promise It has just turned 10 years since the arrival of NHS foundation trusts on the landscape of healthcare. Highly controversial within the Labour party at the time, they were presented by Tony Blair’s government, in...

We can learn from innovations in health to tackle the causes of crime By Kieran Brett —Yvette Cooper’s impressive stewardship as shadow home secretary has maintained Labour’s credentials as the party of law and order. Labour has not lurched back to a leftist position...

Thank you. First, please take it as read that I believe the Labour government achieved fabulous things, so I don’t need to list them for you. Also, I won’t talk at length about my chapter in the Purple Book – save to say, it’s good. Buy it. What I do want to say are a...

The health and social care bill's third reading is today and the government has already had to make big changes to it. But this does not mean that reform has come to standstill; indeed, it will have to continue. Andrew Lansley is right on one level when he points out...