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Quite. If the system is right, throwing money at it can have real benefits. If the system is wrong (and it was/is) then throwing money at it is often the worse thing to do. From what I can see, the Tories generally come up with better systems (obv depends on one's viewpoint etc.) but don't...

PFI, in principle, isn't a bad idea. Poorly implementing it (poor tendering, poor regulation etc.) IS a bad idea. Labour could have handled it in the proper way but they didn't. Actually, this applies to a lot of government ideas (from both parties) is the idea is generally OK/good but the...

The solution isn't to have "targets" though, people will just figure out how to manipulate them rather than addressing the underlying issues. What should have been done is to properly (using incumbent managers, doctors, nurses etc.) to identify why it would take long to be seen. Results of that...

The root of this problem was Labour's massive balls up with the GP contracts. Harder to call your GP with some issue out of hours so they go to A&E instead. Not that the the coalition can absolve themselves but this is not singularly a "tory" thing for anyone other than those cheaply taking...