You’d expect some praise for Tory plans to shake up the National Health Service from right-of-centre think-tank Civitas, which has called for the NHS to be exposed to more market competition. But no. Chief health wonk James Gubb struggled to find a good word to say about the plans in the coalition document, which would “stop the centrally dictated closure” of hospital wards. “The central direction by and large has not come from the health department or government”, Mr Gubb writes. “But now it is: to keep them open, apparently regardless of their quality and viability.” What was that about deficit cutting?
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