24: Does a new Prime Minister signal change in health and social care? – with Rachel Wolf and Isabel Hardman
The Health Foundation podcast
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Competition and Choice in the NHS - What's Going to Be Margaret Thatcher's Guiding Light?
I don't think health is going to be where she concentrates her energy of reform. She wants health not to be a disaster, which is why she puts someone she trusts in terms of competence into it. It's trying to boost private sector investments, growth, competition from a sort of general economy point of view. I would be really surprised if much of her time, energy and political positioning was on health reform. On the broader question, I don't think these ideas ever go away. I think they swing around about and competition and choice will be one of the debates in public services probably forever.
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