Public services
The future of the NHS and social care green paper are the big issues in Hancock’s in-tray
The challenge for any health secretary is to keep focused on the long-term agenda, even when fire-fighting urgent and visible care needs.
Conservative Party Conference 2018
We have now announced a programme of events at the Conservative Party Conference. These will take place on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 October.
Labour Party Conference 2018
We have now announced a programme of events at the Labour Party Conference. These will take place on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 September.
The Government needs to spell out its spending priorities
The Chancellor has not yet said how much he will spend on other public services in 2020/21 or beyond.
It will take more than big funding announcements to fix health and social care
A cross-party parliamentary inquiry to reform social care funding is the best chance to break the current political deadlock.
How to fix the funding of health and social care
A parliamentary inquiry is likely to be the best way to secure long-term funding for health and social care.
Reforming working-age social security: lessons for policy makers
Why has reforming working-age social security proved so hard? What lessons can be learnt for future reform from what has worked in the past
The way the Government has announced its plans for the NHS makes those plans harder to achieve
The Prime Minister has made the job of persuading the public that tax rises - or looser fiscal targets - will be needed much more difficult.
For the NHS anniversary, the PM has given us a big glittery box full of question marks
The Government’s plan for a 3.4% increase in NHS spending is welcome as far as it goes but we need more detail.
Three questions the Government needs to answer about NHS funding
The Government must answer three questions if it is to put the health system on a sustainable financial footing.