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The NHS Plan 2000 was a ten year plan of the Blair ministry for the National Health Service (England). It combined a commitment to substantial investment with some quite radical changes. The most controversial aspect of the plan was the introduction of more private sector providers and a more competitive internal market.
He was the Director of Strategy and Commissioning of the NHS London strategic health authority from June 2007 to March 2009. [1] Corrigan has advocated privatisation of NHS hospitals that face financial difficulties. [5] Corrigan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. [6]
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 ...
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.
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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]
Blair's private interests weren't especially in line with the royal family's either—the queen was famous for her love of the outdoors, horses, and dogs, while Blair favored beach vacations and ...
Tony Blair has revived his former government’s failed policy of ID cards in a digital form to tackle the challenges the world is facing on immigration, health and taxes.. Writing for The Daily ...