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The Changing Role of the General Practitioner 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Andy Burnham’s ambitious and timely speech at the King’s Fund, which introduced the idea of whole person care, focused on the vital issue of integration around the patient – bringing health and social...
Empowering Patients 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
The NHS continues to be a hugely popular public service, despite its much-publicised failings. Disasters, including atrocious care of elderly patients in certain NHS hospitals, and sensationalist tabl...
Investing in childhood 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Political commitment to ending child poverty isn’t what it used to be. From 2010’s dizzy heights of embedding the target to abolish child poverty by 2020 in legislation, we now find it – potentially –...
Labour’s way 21 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
In opposition, David Cameron re-positioned his party with a new brand of ‘compassionate Conservatism’ that could heal ‘broken Britain’. Three years into government, the record contrasts sharply with t...
Decent welfare we can afford 15 Aug 2013 | 08:39 pm
Two myths dominate debates about welfare. First, fair social provision is desirable but we can no longer afford it, because an ageing population puts extra pressures on pensions and health and social ...
Zero-hour contracts are undignified – let’s ban them 6 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
Zero-hour contracts, long a scandalously under-debated issue, are finally puncturing the media consciousness. The revelation that 90% of Sports Direct staff are consigned to such non-contracts has exp...
A period of contemplation 2 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Ninety-nine years ago this weekend Britain entered the First World War. Through 2014’s commemorative platform of events, next year will see a collective discussion of that conflict arguably not seen s...
Power to the people 1 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
On Arnie Graf’s tube journey to our meeting, a young woman had stood up and insisted that he take her seat. “First time that’s happened,” he says. “It made me feel very elderly.” At 69, Graf does not ...
Same again? 29 Jul 2013 | 08:39 pm
Stagnant wages, high debt and low savings created a volatile economic cocktail which left the UK vulnerable to the financial crisis when it struck in 2007. But rather than delivering the tonic that wa...
Saving our justice system 25 Jul 2013 | 09:42 pm
Legal aid was introduced in the 1940s as one of the pillars of the welfare state. The aim was to provide a vital safety net for everyone including the underprivileged. As Winston Churchill once said ‘...
