Health Service Journal
POLITICS MICHAEL WHITE
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Alan on the move? It is not black and white
8-May-2003
Published: 08/05/2003, Volume II3, No. 5854 Page 16, 17 -
Ooo la la! French leave for Brits who tire of the wait
19-Jul-2001
One of my recent pleasures during the working day has been the sight and sound of the Daily Mail, and, more recently, the Conservative leadership candidates, urging that we should all become more European. -
Surely Somme mistake as battle-weary troops hold their ground
31-May-2001
You could be viewing this election campaign (still a whole week to go) as a dreary, control freak's dream, every move orchestrated by Labour HQ at Millbank and its rivals. There again, you could see it as a pleasingly chaotic shambles in which things go wrong all the time and Alan Milburn ends up on Channel 4 News, testily denouncing NHS critics as 'third-rate academics' of ultraleftist persuasion. -
Portly bearded despot sharpens his clause
25-Feb-1999
What a week for the oldsters! In the space of a few days they were told by the boffins that they can all soon expect to live to be 130 (grim thought), yet also that some trusts may deny them access to cardiac rehabilitation programmes after a stroke or heart attack, merely because they are - wait for it - over 60. -
Lords above - it's time to enhance the NHS brand
11-Feb-1999
While the Commons last week debated the bill to purge the hereditary peers, and Labour MP Dr Howard Stoate was fighting off pleas from male colleagues for Viagra prescriptions (name them, demanded Teresa Gorman), the Lords quietly staged their annual debate on the NHS. What a rich mix of fascinating fact, dodgy opinion and probing questions, I thought. Here are a few: -
Through a glass darkly - a peep at the real world
17-Dec-1998
I bumped into Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of Sane, at a Christmas party the other evening. -
overmatter
5-Nov-1998
Funny old thing, coincidence. Barely had this column yoked Paul Boateng's name with that of Alun Michael in the 'Michael Stone' policy debate last week than fate linked them via Ron Davies's ill-fated stroll on Clapham Common. Minister B took minister M's job at the Home Office when he moved up to fill ex-minister D's shoes in Wales.
