The NHS saga is over at last, or so the government hopes. The coalition is expected to
adopt the recommendations of the NHS Future Forum, which have been delineated by
panel member Stephen Bubb in this morning’s Times (£). Last night, the prime minister and his deputy
addressed their respective parliamentary brigades and each claimed the credit for re-shaping Andrew Lansley’s bill for partisan gain.
The political saga continues. The Lib Dems have been crowing over their victory; the Tories are licking their wounds –a voluble Conservative MP has told Philip Johnston that a ‘once in a generation opportunity to reform the NHS has been lost.’ Some of the anger may be synthetic, a prefabricated ruse to enable the Lib Dems to recover from last month’s electoral catastrophes. Nonetheless, the coalition remains fractious.
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