That's all extremely sensible. I completely take your point about 'politically sensitive' (it helps no one.)
The other advantage of removing the NHS from its political football status, is that it would then be able to do some planning outside of the next 5 years cycle. Energy policy could...
Understood but also there is some validity when you think about the NHS as a whole, what happens in one area surely has impact on available budgets for another. The social care point appears to me to be a huge issue from both anecdotal and first hand evidence. I like Burnham's idea around...
I believe it. You'd be amazed at some of the things numbers are not kept on in this country - children who disappear from care for instance.
Clearly that cancer/HIV comparison is very politically sensitive but HIV is an expensive thing to treat. We certainly shouldn't have people coming to this...
From a horse's mouth, so to speak.
http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2015/01/07/brighton-ae-doctor-tells-prime-minister-you-lied-about-nhs
DC does not want the NHS becoming a big issue at the election...