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Opposition to what was claimed to be the Conservative intention to privatise the NHS became a major feature of Labour's election campaigns. [citation needed] Labour came to power in 1997 with the promise to remove the "internal market" and abolish fundholding. However, in his second term, Blair renounced this direction.
The NHS encountered significant problems with the information technology (IT) innovations accompanying the Blair reforms. The NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT), believed to be the largest IT project in the world, is running significantly behind schedule and above budget, with friction between the government and the programme contractors.
Tony Blair's presidential style of leadership was the subject of study of Michael Foley's book The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership. Foley uses Blair's premiership as a case study to further the 'presidentialisation thesis', which is a model used to study the growing power of the British Prime Minister at the ...
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NHS spending 1948/49 to 2014/15 [137] Blair and Brown raised spending on the NHS and other public services, increasing spending from 39.9% of GDP to 48.1% in 2010–11. [138] [139] They pledged in 2001 to bring NHS spending to the levels of other European countries, and doubled spending in real terms to over £100 billion in England alone. [140]
John Prescott who served under Tony's Blair's Labour government has died aged 86. ... His family thanked NHS doctors and nurses who cared for him after his stroke in 2019 and the "dedicated staff ...
Alan Milburn, who was a minister under Tony Blair, said the service needs radical reform rather than more cash, calling for an end to what he said was a “more, more, more culture”.
The name National Health Service (NHS) is used to refer to the publicly funded health care services of England, Scotland and Wales, individually or collectively. Northern Ireland's services are known as 'Health and Social Care' to promote its dual integration of health and social services.