Leading on NHS policy

ConservativeHome has covered today's Times article here setting out the results of a poll asking which party would do the best on a series of issues. The headline is about NHS reform and the lead across the country is consistent with what Rugby voters have been telling us on this months survey. We have so far been on the doorstep in Admirals, Wolvey, Paddox, Benn & Newbold and in addion have been speaking to people across the constituency on the phone. I have heard many accounts of peoples experience of the NHS when the staff in the service receive much praise but where people find the system at fault and see huge waste and inefficiency. There is a real understanding that much needs to be changed, a point acknowledged by Andy Burnham, Health Secretary in his speech a couple of days ago. The shame is that it has taken the biggest recession for a generation which has led to huge pressure on spending for Labour to consider changes that should have been made years ago. Iain Dale blogged about Browns "cuts" speech "What was most intriguing was the moment when Brown said Labour would spend less on unnecessary things and low priorities. Which rather begs the question as to why any money was being spent in the first place on unnecessary things..." Just what have the Government been doing over the past 12 years, how much money has been wasted and how much better should our services be?