Stephen Kinnock MP, Minister for health, captured the much needed direction of travel for Labour’s long term health plan on the Today programme (Oct 21st). Yes, in a nutshell, it’s from analogue to digital, hospital to community and treatment to prev...

Press harder on the gas for prevention

Prevention is making a comeback! It is being talked about seriously both by our new government and the Covid19 Inquiry. John Deanfield of the British Society for Heart Failure wants to see an individualised prev...

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Of the many things I remember from the Blair years, there is one that is emblazoned on my mind. And it is not what you are thinking. Tony Blair made it crystal clear that the first five years in government passes in the blink of an e...

You tell us that the NHS, social care, prevention and reducing inequality are all in your sights. So far so good. And you tell us you will finance it all through chasing £5 billion of unpaid tax. Good luck with that! You and your secretary of State f...

As a cornucopia of languages greet me every morning in North London, I feel the world at my fingertips. It is like birdsong. While I feel privileged to be a lifelong Londoner, I know that the shadow of the divide- In health and in wealth-- remains ob...