Blog: 2010
As the election campaign ratchets up a gear prospective MPs are vying for our votes and using local service changes and promises to save hospitals as currency.
So far, health has been the dog that hasn't barked during the election campaign. So what light did a health hustings shed on the three main parties' health reform plans?
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Chris Ham, the new Chief Executive at The King's Fund talks about his first few weeks in the role and how the election has dominated his work so far.
The three main political parties see public health as a significant issue for the future of health policy, but can we distinguish any differences in their plans?
As the dust settles after the first of the leaders' debates, did it tell us any more about the parties' approach to health?
We know money for the NHS over the next few years is going to be tight, but what are the three main political parties' pledges on funding?
In what promises to be the closest general election in recent memory, just how important will the parties' health policies be when voters confront the ballot box?
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The final piece of the NHS election jigsaw is now in place with the Liberal Democrats' manifesto, which contains a mixture of health reform proposals.
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If there's a sense of déjà vu about the health section of the Conservative manifesto, it's because it pretty much mirrors the draft version published in January.
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Ruth Thorlby explores what the Labour manifesto has to say about health care.
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The election campaign has kicked off, and with many voters still undecided, there is everything to play for. We look at Labour's plans for health reform.
Today the general election campaign began in earnest, with a strong suggestion that health and social care will be key issues for the three main parties.
After just a year, the Care Quality Commission has registered all 378 NHS trusts in England that provide health care services: no mean feat in such a short timescale.
This week's budget held no great surprises for the NHS. But as the financial situation gets harder, can the experience of patients be improved, while spending less?
Variation in services has existed since the NHS began, but it will be interesting to see how the parties' greater commitment to localism will play out in practice.
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Could the impending general election be the first where social care is a key campaigning issue? Don't expect cross-party consensus yet, warns Richard Humphries.
Tammy Boyce comments on the publication of the Marmot Review into inequalities in health care.
The government says that UK cancer survival rates are amongst the worst in Europe and proof of the need for change. What do the comparative statistics tell us?
Norman Lamb kicked off the first of The King's Fund's election breakfast debates on 9 February 2010. Anna Dixon reports from the event.
Sometimes rectifying the smallest or simplest of things can transform patients' experience of care. Don't wait to form a committee, start trying to improve patients' experience now.