The Telegraph is running an excellent series on what the Tories would do in power. Yesterday, Jill Kirby wrote about the Tories and family policy, and this morning Anthony Browne turns the spotlight on the Tory approach to the NHS. Health policy under Cameron has been, to put it mildly, uninspiring. The Tories’ main aim seems to have been to neutralise it as a political issue and keep the BMA on side. The result is a policy that reeks of producer capture.
One of Browne’s main points is that the Tories must not succumb to the short-term political temptation of opposing the closure of every hospital or local doctor’s surgery. As Browne writes:
“Embracing reform means the Tories will have to stop opposing all hospital closures; the configuration of hospitals dates from 60 years ago and is not appropriate for 2008.
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